1 Samuel 13:21

Tree of Life Version

The price of sharpening was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares, the sickles, the three-pronged forks or the axes, or to set the oxgoads.

Cross References

Zechariah 13:8

Then it will happen —it is a declaration of Adonai— that in the entire land two-thirds will be cut off and die, but a third will be left in it.

1 Samuel 13:20

So all the Israelites had to go down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshare, his sickle, his axe or his hoe.

1 Samuel 13:22

So it came about on the day of battle, there was no sword or spear to be found in the hand of any of the troops that were with Saul and Jonathan—only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.