1 Samuel 13:21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks and one-third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.

Cross References

Zechariah 13:8

In the whole land, says the Lord, two-thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one-third shall be left alive.

1 Samuel 13:20

so all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, or sickles.

1 Samuel 13:22

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.