◄ 1 Samuel 13:21 ►
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Good News Translation
the charge was one small coin for sharpening axes and for fixing goads, and two coins for sharpening plows or hoes.)

New Revised Standard Version
The charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and one-third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.

New American Bible
The price for the plowshares and mattocks was two thirds of a shekel, and a third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the ox-goads.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

a file [heb] a file with mouths

Context
Israel Without Weapons
…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.22And 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.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 13:20
So all Israel went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his ploughshare, and his spade, and his axe, and his rake.

1 Samuel 13:22
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.

Zechariah 13:8
And there shall be in all the earth, saith the Lord, two parts in it shall be scattered, and shall perish: but the third part shall be left therein.

1 Samuel 13:20
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