¹⁵ Then Samuel got up and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul mustered the people who were found with him, about six hundred men. ¹⁶ Saul and Jonathan his son and the army that remained with them were staying in Geba of Benjamin, and the Philistines encamped at Micmash. ¹⁷ The raiders^[a] went out from the camp of the Philistines in three divisions. One division turned on the road^[b] to Ophrah toward the land of Shual. ¹⁸ One division turned on the road^[c] to Beth Horon, and one turned on the road^[d] toward the border overlooking the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

¹⁹ Now no skilled craftsman could be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had said, “So that the Hebrews cannot make swords or spears for themselves.” ²⁰ So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to have his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his iron plowshare^[e] sharpened. ²¹ The charge^[f] was two-thirds of a shekel^[g] for the plowshare and for the mattock, and a third of a shekel for the pick^[h] and for the axe, and to set the goading sticks. ²² So^[i] on the day of battle, there was not a sword or a spear found in the hands of all the army that was with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and his son Jonathan had them.^[j]