⁵ For instance, a man may go into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and as he swings his ax to fell a tree, the head may fly off and hit his neighbor and kill him. That man may flee to one of these cities and save his life.

²⁰ So all Israel went down to the Philistines to have their plow points, mattocks, axes and sickles^[a] sharpened.

²¹ The price was two-thirds of a shekel^[a] for sharpening plow points and mattocks, and a third of a shekel^[b] for sharpening forks and axes and for repointing goads.

³¹ and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes, and he made them work at brickmaking.^[a] David did this to all the Ammonite^(A) towns. Then he and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.