2 Samuel 4:6

Verse 6. Corn. Soldiers were paid with corn, instead of money. They came, therefore, under this pretext; or they brought some as a present to the king, (Liran) or pretended that they were come to purchase, ( Menochius.) or bringing a sample to sell; ( Tirinus.) ut emptores tritici. Chal. Prot. “as though they would have fetched wheat, and they smote him under the fifth rib.”