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20 Everyone in Israel had to go to the Philistines to sharpen the blade of his plow, his mattock, ax, or sickle. 21 The price was a pim[a] for plow blades and mattocks, and one-tenth of an ounce of silver to sharpen a mattock[b] or set a metal point on a cattle-prod. 22 So on the day of battle, not one sword or spear could be found among all the troops who were with Saul and Jonathan. But Saul and his son Jonathan had them.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 13:21 A pim was a measure of weight.
  2. 1 Samuel 13:21 Hebrew meaning of “one-tenth . . . a mattock” uncertain.

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