Compare this passage with 2 Samuel 23:9-10.
Barley - In 2 Samuel 23:11, “lentiles.” The words for barley and lentils are so similar in the Hebrew that we may fairly explain the diversity by an accidental corruption.
Related Commentaries of 1 Chronicles 11:13
1 Chronicles 11:13
13 He was with David at Pasdammim,h and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.