In the whole land – this is the Lord’s declaration – two-thirds will be cut off and die, but a third will be left in it.
1 Samuel 13:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The price was two-thirds of a shekel for ploughs and mattocks, and one-third of a shekel for pitchforks and axes, and for putting a point on a cattle prod. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the price for plowshares and mattocks was a pim, and a third of a shekel for axes and for setting goads [with resulting blunt edges on the sickles, mattocks, forks, axes, and goads.] American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible The cost was two-thirds of a shekel for plowshares and mattocks, but one-third of a shekel for sharpening axes and for setting goads. Catholic Public Domain Version For their plow blades, and pick axes, and pitch forks, and axes had become blunt, and even the handles needed to be repaired. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So that their shares, and their spades, and their forks, and their axes were blunt, even to the goad, which was to be mended. |
In the whole land – this is the Lord’s declaration – two-thirds will be cut off and die, but a third will be left in it.
So all the Israelites went to the Philistines to sharpen their ploughs, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
So on the day of battle not a sword or spear could be found in the hand of any of the troops who were with Saul and Jonathan; only Saul and his son Jonathan had weapons.