Logo
🔍

1 Samuel 13:17-21

1 Samuel 13:17

Then raiders came from the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual,

1 Samuel 13:18

and another company turned toward Beth-horon, and another company turned toward the border that overlooks the Valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

1 Samuel 13:19

Now no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears.”

1 Samuel 13:20

So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his hoe.

1 Samuel 13:21

The charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks, and the axes, and to fix the cattle goads.