1 Samuel 13:21
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 share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen 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 that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.
- KJV
- Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
- WEB
- The price was one payim each to sharpen mattocks, plowshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads.
- ASV
- yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
- DARBY
- when the edges of the sickles, and the hoes, and the forks, and the axes were blunted; and to set the goads.
- BLB
- And the charge was a pim for the plowshares and the mattocks, and for a third [of a shekel] the forks and the axes, and to set the points of the goads.
- ÅB
- og når eggen var sløvet på plogskjærene og hakkene og grepene og øksene, eller for å få en pigg påsatt.
- OTB
- Prisen var to tredjedeler av en sjekel for sliping av plogjern, hakker, høygaffel og økser, og for å sette på piggene.
- B1930
- og når eggen var sløvet på plogskjærene og hakkene og grepene og øksene, eller for å få en pigg påsatt.