# Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning knives into spears

These two phrases share similar meanings. Both of them instruct the people to turn their farming tools into weapons. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])

# plowshares

tools that are used to break up the soil in order to plant crops

# pruning knives

knives that are used to cut off small branches