1 Samuel 13:21-23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

²¹ The charge was two-thirds of a shekel^[a] for the plowshares and for the mattocks and one-third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.^{[b] 22} So on the day of the battle neither sword nor spear was to be found in the possession of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and his son Jonathan had them.^(A)

Jonathan Surprises and Routs the Philistines

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