1 Samuel 13:20

Bible in Basic English 1965

For 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.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 34:6

And in all the towns of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon as far as Naphtali, he made waste their houses round about.

Proverbs 27:17

Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.

Deuteronomy 32:41

If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.

1 Samuel 13:19

But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp;

1 Samuel 13:21

So on the day of the fight at Michmash, not a sword or a spear was to be seen in the hands of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan: only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.