Commentary for Bava Kamma 120:22

בשלמא למאן דאמר לאחלופי היינו דכתיב חד קרא (שמואל ב כג, יא) ותהי שם חלקת השדה מלאה עדשים וכתיב חד קרא (דברי הימים א יא, יג) ותהי חלקת השדה מלאה שעורים

[implying that] even where the robber [subsequently] pays for the '<i>robbery</i>', he still remains '<i>wicked</i>'. You, however, are King and a king may break through [fields of private owners] making thus a way [for his army], and nobody is entitled to prevent him [from doing so]. If we accept the view that he wanted to exchange,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Stacks of barley belonging to Israelites for stacks of lentils that belong to the enemy. ');">³⁴</span> we can quite understand how in one verse it is written, <i>Where was a plot of ground full of lentils</i>,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' II Sam. XXIII, 11. ');">³⁵</span>

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