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Barley
is one of the most important of the cereal grains, and the most hardy of them all. It was grown by the Hebrews, (Le 27:16; De 8:8; Ru 2:17) etc., who used it for baking into bread chiefly among the poor, (Jud 7:13; 2Ki 4:42; Joh 6:9,13) and as fodder for horses. (1Ki 4:28) The barley harvest, (Ru 1:22; 2:23; 2Sa 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. (Ex 9:31)