1 Samuel 13:21

Good News Translation

the charge was one small coin for sharpening axes and for fixing goads, and two coins for sharpening plows or hoes.)

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and throughout the land two-thirds of the people will die.

The Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their plows, hoes, axes, and sickles sharpened;

And so on the day of battle none of the Israelite soldiers except Saul and his son Jonathan had swords or spears.