1 Samuel 13:21
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.
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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- The price was one payim each to sharpen mattocks, plowshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- when the edges of the sickles, and the hoes, and the forks, and the axes were blunted; and to set the goads.
- BLB
- And the charge was a pim for the plowshares and the mattocks, and for a third [of a shekel] the forks and the axes, and to set the points of the goads.
- ÅB
- og når eggen var sløvet på plogskjærene og hakkene og grepene og øksene, eller for å få en pigg påsatt.
- OTB
- Prisen var to tredjedeler av en sjekel for sliping av plogjern, hakker, høygaffel og økser, og for å sette på piggene.
- B1930
- og når eggen var sløvet på plogskjærene og hakkene og grepene og øksene, eller for å få en pigg påsatt.