Now there was no blacksmith found in all the land of Israel. All the Israelites had to go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes and sickles. On the day of battle, neither sword nor spear was found in the hand of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan. Only Saul and his son had weapons. Saul sat under a pomegranate tree and didn’t know what to do.