¹⁵ Then Samuel set out and went up from Gilgal to ^(A)Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul ^[a]counted the people who were ^[b]present with him, ^(B)about six hundred men. ¹⁶ Now Saul, his son Jonathan, and the people who were ^[c]present with them were staying in ^(C)Geba of Benjamin while the Philistines camped at Michmash. ¹⁷ Then ^(D)[d]raiders came from the camp of the Philistines in three ^[e]companies: one ^[f]company turned ^[g]toward ^(E)Ophrah, to the land of Shual, ¹⁸ and another ^[h]company turned ^[i]toward ^(F)Beth-horon, and another ^[j]company turned ^[k]toward the border that overlooks the Valley of ^(G)Zeboim toward the wilderness.

¹⁹ Now ^(H)no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make ^[l](I)swords or spears.” ²⁰ So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his hoe. ²¹ The charge was ^[m]two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks, and the axes, and to fix the ^[n]cattle goads. ²² So it came about on the day of battle that ^(J)neither sword nor spear was found in the hands of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan, but they were found with Saul and his son Jonathan.