Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
As though they would have fetched wheat - This is a very obscure passage, and the double repetition in II Samuel 4:6-7 of the murder of the king and of the escape of the assassin, is hard to account for. Rechab and Baanah came into the house under the pretence of getting grain, probably for the band which they commanded out of the king' s storehouse, and so contrived to get access into the king' s chamber; or, they found the wheat-carriers (the persons whose business it was to carry in grain for the king' s household) just going into the king' s house, and by joining them got into the midst of the house unnoticed. If the latter be the sense, the literal translation of the words would be: "And behold (or, and there) there came into the midst of the house the carriers of wheat, and they (i. e. Rechab and Baanah) smote him, etc."
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Samuel 4:6:
2 Samuel 2:10
2 Samuel 4:6
1 Chronicles 10:6
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