1 Samuel 13:20

So all Israel had to go down to the Philistines in order to get their plowshares, cutting instruments, axes, and sickles ¹  sharpened.

biblegateway 1Sa 13:20

So all Israel went down to the Philistines to have their ploughshares, mattocks, axes and sickles sharpened.

biblegateway 1Sa 13:20

So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his hoe.

biblegateway 1Sa 13:20

So whenever the Israelites needed to sharpen their plowshares, picks, axes, or sickles, they had to take them to a Philistine blacksmith.

biblegateway 1Sa 13:20

That meant that the Israelites had to go down among the Philistines to keep their farm tools--plowshares and mattocks, axes and sickles--sharp and in good repair.

SABDAweb 1Sa 13:20

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

bibleoremus 1Sa 13:20

so all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshare, mattocks, axes, or sickles;

biblegateway 1Sa 13:20

But all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen each man’s plowshare, his mattock, his ax, and his sickle;

biblegateway 1Sa 13:20

So all Israel had to go down to the Philistines in order to get their plowshares, cutting instruments, axes, and sickles ¹  sharpened.

¹ tc The translation follows the LXX (“their sickle”) here, rather than the MT “plowshares,” which is due to dittography from the word earlier in the verse.