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20 Everyone in Israel would have to go to the Philistines so each person could sharpen his plow, his mattock, his axe, and his sickle.[a] 21 The charge was one pin[b] for plows, mattocks, three pronged forks,[c] and axes, or for setting the goads. 22 On the day of battle, none of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan were armed with swords or spears, but Saul and his son Jonathan did have[d] them.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 13:20 So LXX; MT, plow
  2. 1 Samuel 13:21 I.e. a unit of measurement equal to about 2/3 of a shekel, weighing about 0.3 ounces; one shekel weighed about 0.4 ounces
  3. 1 Samuel 13:21 The meaning of MT is uncertain
  4. 1 Samuel 13:22 Lit. were found with