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.


In Context

18 and another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, |Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears;|

20 but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, axe, and sickle;

21 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.

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 who were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.

23 The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.

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 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 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.