1 Samuel 13:21
Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
1 Samuel 13:21 in other translations
| BSB | 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. |
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| WEB | The price was one payim each to sharpen mattocks, plowshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads. |
| ASV | yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads. |
| YLT | and there hath been the file for mattocks, and for coulters, and for three-pronged rakes, and for the axes, and to set up the goads. |
| DARBY | when the edges of the sickles, and the hoes, and the forks, and the axes were blunted; and to set the goads. |
| BBE | For they had instruments for putting an edge on their ploughs and blades and forks and axes, and for putting iron points on their ox-driving rods. |
| Webster | Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the colters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads. |
What does 1 Samuel 13:21 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Samuel 13:15-23
See how politic the Philistines were when they had power; they not only prevented the people of Israel from making weapons of war, but obliged them to depend upon their enemies, even for instruments of husbandry. How impolitic Saul was, who did not, in the beginning of his reign, set himself to redress this. Want of true sense always accompanies want of grace. Sins which appear to us very little, have dangerous…
1 Samuel 13:21 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- 1 Samuel 13:20
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
- 1 Samuel 13:21
Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
- 1 Samuel 13:22
So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
1 Samuel 13:21 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y cuando se hacían bocas en las rejas, ó en los azadones, ó en las horquillas, ó en las hachas; hasta para una ahijada que se hubiera de componer. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | lorsque le tranchant des faucilles et des houes et des tridents et des haches était émoussé, et pour redresser un aiguillon. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | wenn die Schneiden an den Sicheln und an den Spaten und an den Gabeln und an den Beilen abgestumpft waren, und um den Rinderstachel zu richten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Retusæ itaque erant acies vomerum, et ligonum, et tridentum, et securium, usque ad stimulum corrigendum. |