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1 Samuel 13:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

1 Samuel 13:21

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19 Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears”;

20 but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his own plowshare, mattock, ax, and sickle.

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

22 So it came to pass in the day of battle that neither sword nor spear was found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan; but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.

23 The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.

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1 Samuel 13:1

"Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years."

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"Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the people to their own tents."

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"When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits."

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