21So that their shares, and their spades, and their forks, and their axes were blunt, even to the goad, which was to be mended.


In Context

18 And another went by the way of Beth-horon, and the third turned to the way of the border, above the valley of Seboim towards the desert.

19 Now there was no smith to be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had taken this precaution, lest the Hebrews should make them swords or spears.

20 So all Israel went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his ploughshare, and his spade, and his axe, and his rake.

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

22 And when the day of battle was come, there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan, except Saul and Jonathan his son.

23 And the army of the Philistines went out in order to advance further in Machmas.

1 Samuel 13:21 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

13:21The 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.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:21Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

13:21yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:21when the edges of the sickles, and the hoes, and the forks, and the axes were blunted; and to set the goads.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

13:21yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes; and to set the goads.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:21Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the colters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:21yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

13:21and 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:21Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.