1 Samuel 13:21
“Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forkes, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.”
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1 Samuel 13:21 Context
19¶ Now there was no smith found thorowout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrewes make them swords or speares. 20But all the Israelites went downe to the Philistines, to sharpen euery man his share and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattocke. 21Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forkes, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads. 22So it came to passe in the day of battell, that there was neither sword nor speare found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Ionathan: but with Saul & with Ionathan his sonne was there found. 23And the garison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
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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 Version
The charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks, and the axes, and to fix the hoes.
- New American Standard Version (1995)