20 So all the Israelites went to the Philistines to sharpen their plows, mattocks, axes, and sickles.[a] 21 The price was two-thirds of a shekel[b] for plows and mattocks, and one-third of a shekel for pitchforks and axes, and for putting a point on a cattle prod. 22 So on the day of battle not a sword or spear could be found in the hand of any of the troops who were with Saul(A) and Jonathan; only Saul and his son Jonathan had weapons.

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Footnotes

  1. 13:20 LXX; MT reads plowshares
  2. 13:21 Lit of a pim; about one-fourth ounce of silver

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