◄ 1 Samuel 13:20 ►
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Good News Translation
The Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their plows, hoes, axes, and sickles sharpened;

New Revised Standard Version
so all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, or sickles;

New American Bible
All Israel, therefore, had to go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So all Israel went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his ploughshare, and his spade, and his axe, and his rake.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Context
Israel Without Weapons
…19Now 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. 20So all Israel went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his ploughshare, and his spade, and his axe, and his rake.21So that their shares, and their spades, and their forks, and their axes, were blunt, even to the goad, which was to be mended.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:41
If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me.

1 Samuel 13:19
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.

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

2 Chronicles 34:6
And in the cities of Manasses, and of Ephraim, and of Simeon, even to Nephtali he demolished all.

1 Samuel 13:19
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