1 Samuel 13:21
What does 1 Samuel 13:21 mean?
A plain-English look at 1 Samuel 13:21 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For they had instruments for putting an edge on their ploughs and blades and forks and axes, and for putting iron points on their ox-driving rods.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and 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.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752So that their shares, and their spades, and their forks, and their axes, were blunt, even to the goad, which was to be mended.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890when the edges of the sickles, and the hoes, and the forks, and the axes were blunted; and to set the goads.
Context
v.20but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock;
v.21This passage
v.22So 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 that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
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