Barley:
is one of the most important of the cereal grains, and the most hardy of them all. It was grown by the Hebrews (Leviticus 27:16; 8:8; Ruth 2:17 etc.) who used it for baking into bread chiefly among the poor (Judges 7:13; 2 Kings 4:42; John 6:9; 6:13) and as fodder for horses (1 Kings 4:28). The barley harvest (Ruth 1:22; 2:23; 2 Samuel 21:9-10) takes place in Palestine in March and April, and in the hilly district as late as May. It always precedes the wheat harvest, in some places by a week, in others by fully three weeks. In Egypt the barley is about a month earlier than the wheat; whence its total destruction by the hail storm (Exodus 9:31).
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