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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.

Jonathan Surprises and Routs the Philistines

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

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 13:21 Heb was a pim
  2. 1 Samuel 13:21 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain

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