1 Samuel 13:21

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.

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KJV

King James Version

Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

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WEB

World English Bible

The price was one payim each to sharpen mattocks, plowshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads.

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ASV

American Standard Version

yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

1 Samuel 13

¹⁹ And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.”

²⁰ Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.

²¹ The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.

²² So on the day of battle not a sword or spear could be found in the hands of the troops with Saul and Jonathan; only Saul and his son Jonathan had weapons.

²³ And a garrison of the Philistines had gone out to the pass at Michmash.

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