In the whole land, says the Lord, two-thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one-third shall be left alive.
1 Samuel 13:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 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. More versionsKing 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, says the Lord, two-thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one-third shall be left alive.
so all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, or sickles.
So on the day of the battle neither sword nor spear was to be found in the possession of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and his son Jonathan had them.