Scripture · Old Testament
1 Samuel 13:20
1 Samuel 13:20 is verse 20 of 1 Samuel chapter 13, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
LXX; Hebrew and plowshares; (so plowshare appears twice in the Hebrew).
King James Version
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
World English Bible
but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his own plowshare, mattock, ax, and sickle.
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1 Samuel 13:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 another toward Beth-horon, and the third down the border road overlooking the Valley of Zeboim facing the wilderness.
19 And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.”
20 Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
21 The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.
22 So on the day of battle not a sword or spear could be found in the hands of the troops with Saul and Jonathan; only Saul and his son Jonathan had weapons.
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