1 Samuel 13:20

A Conservative Version

but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:41

if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.

1 Samuel 13:19

Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make for them swords or spears,

1 Samuel 13:21

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.

2 Chronicles 34:6

And [so also] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even to Naphtali, in their ruins round about.

Proverbs 27:17

Iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.