1 Samuel 13:21

1 Samuel 13:21 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)The price was two-thirds of a shekel for sharpening plow points and mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening forks and axes and for repointing goads.
• English Standard Version (ESV)and the charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.
• New King James Version (NKJV)and the charge for a sharpening was a pim for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks, and the axes, and to set the points of the goads.

Context of 1 Samuel 13:21

19There were no blacksmiths in the land of Israel in those days. The Philistines wouldn’t allow them for fear they would make swords and spears for the Hebrews. 20So whenever the Israelites needed to sharpen their plowshares, picks, axes, or sickles, they had to take them to a Philistine blacksmith. The charges were as follows: a quarter of an ounce of silver for sharpening a plowshare or a pick, and an eighth of an ounce for sharpening an ax or making the point of an ox goad. 22So on the day of the battle none of the people of Israel had a sword or spear, except for Saul and Jonathan. 23The pass at Micmash had meanwhile been secured by a contingent of the Philistine army.

1 Samuel 13:21 word by word

וְֽהָיְתָ֞ה הַפְּצִ֣ירָה פִ֗ים לַמַּֽחֲרֵשֹׁת֙ וְלָ֣אֵתִ֔ים וְלִשְׁלֹ֥שׁ קִלְּשׁ֖וֹן וּלְהַקַּרְדֻּמִּ֑ים וּלְהַצִּ֖יב הַדָּרְבָֽן׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Yet they had a fileפֶּהpeh · lip: one thirdH6310
• Yet they had a fileפְּצִירָהpetsîyrâh · bluntnessH6477
• for the mattocksמַחֲרֵשָׁהmachărêshâh · plowshareH4281
• and for the coultersאֵת'êth · plowshareH855
• and for the forksקִלְּשׁוֹןqilleshôn · forkH7053
• and for the forksשָׁלֹשׁshâlôsh shâlôsh shelôshâh shelôshâh · threeH7969
• and for the axesקַרְדֹּםqardôm · axeH7134
• and to sharpenנָצַבnâtsab · to standH5324
• the goadsדׇּרְבוֹןdorbôn · goadH1861

Commentaries on 1 Samuel 13:21

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 21Yet they had a file - The Hebrew פצירה petsirah, from פצר patsar, to rub hard, is translated very differently by the versions and by critics. Our translation may be as likely as any: they permitted them the use of files, (I believe the word means grindstone), to restore the blunted edges of their tridents, axes, and goads.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-23Verses 15-23 See how politic the Philistines were when they had power; they not only prevented the people of Israel from making weapons of war, but obliged them to depend upon their enemies, even for instruments of husbandry. How impolitic Saul was, who did not, in the beginning of his reign, set himself to redress this. Want of true sense always accompanies want of grace. Sins which appear to us very little, have dangerous consequences. Miserable is a…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19-22no blacksmith: The Philistines prevented the Israelites from having weapons by controlling all the iron needed to make them. Iron technology was new in Canaan. It likely developed in the Aegean region and was brought to Canaan by seafaring people, like the Philistines.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2121. Yet they had a file--as a kind of privilege, for the purpose of sharpening sundry smaller utensils of husbandry.Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Samuel 13:21

• Agriculture
• Ax
• File
• Fork
• Goad
• Mattock

In the dictionaries

• Agriculture
• Axe
• Continue
• Coulter
• Goad
• Philistines
• Samuel
• Ax (axe); Ax-Head
• File
• Fork

Commentaries on 1 Samuel 13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings