1 Samuel 13:21

Conservative English Version

(SEE 13:20)

Cross References

Zechariah 13:8

Nowhere in the land will more than a third of them be left alive.

1 Samuel 13:20

Whenever the Israelites wanted to get an iron point put on a cattle prod, they had to go to the Philistines. Even if they wanted to sharpen plow-blades, picks, axes, sickles, and pitchforks they still had to go to them. And the Philistines charged high prices.

1 Samuel 13:22

So, whenever the Israelite soldiers had to go into battle, none of them had a sword or a spear except Saul and his son Jonathan.