1 Samuel 13:21

New International Reader's Version

It cost a fourth of an ounce of silver to sharpen a plow or a hoe. It cost an eighth of an ounce to sharpen a pitchfork or an axe. That’s also what it cost to put new tips on the large sticks used to drive oxen.

Cross References

Zechariah 13:8

Here is what will happen in the whole land,” announces the Lord. “Two-thirds of the people will be struck down and die. But one-third will be left.

1 Samuel 13:20

So all the Israelites had to go down to the Philistines. They had to go to them to get their plows, hoes, axes and sickles sharpened.

1 Samuel 13:22

So the Israelite soldiers went out to battle without swords or spears in their hands. That was true for all of Saul’s and Jonathan’s soldiers. Only Saul and his son Jonathan had those weapons.