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

22 So on the day of the battle not a soldier with Saul and Jonathan had a sword or spear in his hand; only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.

Jonathan attacks the Philistines

23 Now a detachment of Philistines had gone out to the pass at Michmash.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 13:21 That is, about 8 grams
  2. 1 Samuel 13:21 That is, about 4 grams