The price was two-thirds of a shekel for sharpening plow points and mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening forks and axes and for repointing goads.
In the whole land,” declares the Lord, “two-thirds will be struck down and perish; yet one-third will be left in it.
So all Israel went down to the Philistines to have their plow points, mattocks, axes and sickles sharpened.
So on the day of the battle not a soldier with Saul and Jonathan had a sword or spear in his hand; only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.