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.


In Context

18 another toward Beth Horon, and the third toward the borderland overlooking the Valley of Zeboim facing the desert.

19 Not a blacksmith could be found in the whole land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, "Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears!"

20 So all Israel went down to the Philistines to have their plowshares, mattocks, axes and sickles sharpened.

21 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.

22 So on the day of the battle not a soldier with Saul and Jonathan had a sword or spear in his hand; only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.

23 Now a detachment of Philistines had gone out to the pass at Micmash.

1st Samuel 13:21 in Other Translations

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

13:21So that their shares, and their spades, and their forks, and their axes were blunt, even to the goad, which was to be mended.

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.