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La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez

1 Samuel 13:20

Y todos los de Israel descendían a los filisteos cada cual a afilar su reja de arado, su azadón, su hacha o su hoz;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agriculture;   Ax;   Mattock;   Plow;   Thompson Chain Reference - Axes;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Agriculture or Husbandry;   Arms, Military;   Iron;   Philistines, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Philistines;   Smith;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Craft workers;   Farming;   Philistia, philistines;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Carpenter;   Coulter;   Philistines;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Arms;   Dan (1);   David;   Iron (2);   Judges, the Book of;   Philistia;   Saul;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ax, Ax Head;   Economic Life;   Iron;   Minerals and Metals;   Mines and Mining;   Philistines, the;   Samuel, Books of;   Tools;   Weights and Measures;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Agriculture;   Coulter;   Gibeah;   Israel;   Jonathan;   Mattock;   Michmash;   Philistines;   Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Coulter,;   Mattock;   Michmas, Michmash ;   Smith;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jonathan;   Plough;   Saul;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Army;   Ax (Axe);   Jonathan (2);   Mattock;   Philistines;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Axe;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Agriculture;   Iron;   Metals;   Plowing;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Y todo Israel tenía que descender a los filisteos, cada cual para afilar la reja de su arado, su azuela, su hacha o su aguijada.
La Biblia Reina-Valera
Samuel 13:20"> 20 Y todos los de Israel descendían á los Filisteos cada cual á amolar su reja, su azadón, su hacha, ó su sacho,
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Y así todos los de Israel descendían a los filisteos cada cual a amolar su reja, su azadón, su hacha, o su sacho,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 17:10 - And since 2 Chronicles 34:6 - mattocks Proverbs 27:17 - Iron Jeremiah 24:1 - smiths

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines,.... Were obliged to go into Palestine, into some one or other of the cities of the Philistines, or to their garrisons, where the trade of a smith was exercised:

to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter; which are the parts of the plough made of iron, with which the earth is cut and thrown up:

and his axe and his mattock; or pick axe; with the one wood is felled and cut, and with the other stones are dug; and each of these for their several uses needed sharpening; and when they did, they were obliged to go to the Philistines to have them done, they having no smiths among them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The best rendering of the passage is perhaps as follows: “But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen etc. 1 Samuel 13:21, whenever there was bluntness of edge to their shares and coulters and prong-forks and axes, and to point their goads.” Coulters and mattocks were cutting instruments of the type of the share.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 13:20. But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines — We find from this that they did not grant them as much as Porsenna did to the Romans; he permitted the people to manufacture the implements of husbandry.


 
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