Discovery Box2 Samuel 23:13-14 
Context23:13 At the time of 1 the harvest three 2 of the thirty leaders went down to 3 David at the cave of Adullam. A band of Philistines was camped in the valley of Rephaim. 23:14 David was in the stronghold at the time, while a Philistine garrison was in Bethlehem. 4
1 tn The meaning of Hebrew אֶל־קָצִיר (’el qatsir) seems here to be “at the time of harvest,” although this is an unusual use of the phrase. As S. R. Driver points out, this preposition does not normally have the temporal sense of “in” or “during” (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 366).
2 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew
3 tn Heb “went down…and approached.”
