Shekel


A quarter of a shekel of silver was the gift Saul's servant happened to have so they could ask Samuel about their journey, a circumstance that introduced Samuel to the first king. (1 Samuel 9:1-24)

The Philistines charged Saul's Hebrews to sharpen their farming equipment, but refused to give them blacksmiths, before the battle of Michmash: a "pim" of a shekel for plowshares and mattocks, 1/3 for sharpening axes and setting the goads. (1 Samuel 13:19-22)

Absalom's hair grew at a rate of 200 shekels' weight per year. (2 Samuel 14:25-26)

King David purchased the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite and oxen for fifty shekels of silver, for he would not offer burnt offerings that cost him nothing. (2 Samuel 24:18-25)

Hosea purchased his wife Gomer back for 15 shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley. (Hosea 3:2)