1 Samuel 13:21
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New International Version (©1984)
The price was two thirds of a shekel for sharpening plowshares and mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening forks and axes and for repointing goads.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks, and the axes, and to fix the hoes.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The price was a pim for plow blades and mattocks, and one-tenth of an ounce of silver to sharpen a mattock or set a metal point on a cattle-prod.

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So that their shares, and their spades, and their forks, and their axes were blunt, even to the goad, which was to be mended.

Darby Bible Translation
when the edges of the sickles, and the hoes, and the forks, and the axes were blunted; and to set the goads.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Geneva Study Bible

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.

King James Translators' Notes

a file: Heb. a file with mouths, or Heb. a pim, a third of a shekel

sharpen: Heb. set

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

21. Yet they had a file-as a kind of privilege, for the purpose of sharpening sundry smaller utensils of husbandry.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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 consequences. Miserable is a guilty, defenceless nation; much more those who are destitute of the whole armour of God.


1 Samuel 13:20 So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his hoe.
1 Samuel 13:22 So it came about on the day of battle that neither sword nor spear was found in the hands of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan, but they were found with Saul and his son Jonathan. (NASB ©1995)

Axes Blades Blunted Charge Edge Edges Hoes Instruments Iron Mattocks Ploughs Plowshares Points Price Putting Rods Setting Sharpen Shekel Sickles Teeth Third Thirds Three Three-Pronged Two-Thirds


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.

a file [heb] a file with mouths
sharpen [heb] set

Bible Gateway: 1 Samuel Chapter 13 Verse 21 NIV ESV NKJV NLT KJV Message Amplified

Alphabetical: a and axes charge fix for forks goads hoes mattocks of plowshares price repointing sharpening shekel The third thirds to two two-thirds was

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