1 Samuel 13:20

Tree of Life Version

So all the Israelites had to go down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshare, his sickle, his axe or his hoe.

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In the towns of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, with their surrounding ruins,

As iron sharpens iron, so a person sharpens the countenance of his friend.

when I sharpen My lightning sword and My hand seizes it in judgment, I will return vengeance on My foes, and those who hate Me I will pay back.

Now no blacksmith could be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears!”

The price of sharpening was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares, the sickles, the three-pronged forks or the axes, or to set the oxgoads.