20and all Israel go down to the Philistines, to sharpen each his ploughshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock;


In Context

17 And the destroyer goeth out from the camp of the Philistines — three detachments; the one detachment turneth unto the way of Ophrah, unto the land of Shual;

18 and the one detachment turneth the way of Beth-Horon, and the one detachment turneth the way of the border which is looking on the valley of the Zeboim, toward the wilderness.

19 And an artificer is not found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, 'Lest the Hebrews make sword or spear;'

20 and all Israel go down to the Philistines, to sharpen each his ploughshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock;

21 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.

22 And it hath been, in the day of battle, that there hath not been found sword and spear in the hand of any of the people who are with Saul and with Jonathan — and there is found to Saul and to Jonathan his son.

1 Samuel 13:20 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

13:20So all Israel went down to the Philistines to have their plowshares, mattocks, axes and sickles sharpened.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:20But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

13:20So all Israel went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his ploughshare, and his spade, and his axe, and his rake.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

13:20but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:20And all Israel went down to the Philistines, every man to get his ploughshare, and his hoe, and his axe, and his sickle sharpened,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

13:20but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:20But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his colter, and his ax, and his mattock.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:20but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, axe, and sickle;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:20But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his ax, and his mattock.