1 Samuel 13:19-21

English Standard Version Anglicised

^19 (A)Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.” ²⁰ But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his ploughshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle,^{[a] 21} and the charge was two-thirds of a shekel^[b] for the ploughshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel^[c] for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.^[d]