1 Samuel 13:20
“But all the Israelites went downe to the Philistines, to sharpen euery man his share and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattocke.”
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1 Samuel 13:20 Context
18And another company turned the way to Bethoron: and another companie turned to the way of the border, that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wildernesse. 19¶ Now there was no smith found thorowout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrewes make them swords or speares. 20But all the Israelites went downe to the Philistines, to sharpen euery man his share and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattocke. 21Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forkes, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads. 22So it came to passe in the day of battell, that there was neither sword nor speare found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Ionathan: but with Saul & with Ionathan his sonne was there found.
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But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
- King James Version
So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his hoe.
- New American Standard Version (1995)