1 Samuel 13:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 1 Sam 13:21-23
    3 verses
    91%

    21For they had instruments for putting an edge on their ploughs and blades and forks and axes, and for putting iron points on their ox-driving rods.

    22So on the day of the fight at Michmash, not a sword or a spear was to be seen in the hands of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan: only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.

    23And the armed force of the Philistines went out to the narrow way of Michmash.

  • 1 Sam 13:18-19
    2 verses
    84%

    18And another went in the direction of Beth-horon: and another went by the hill looking down on the valley of Zeboiim, in the direction of the waste land.

    19Now there was no iron-worker in all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, For fear the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears:

  • Joel 3:10
    71%

    10For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.

  • Ezek 21:9-11
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    9Son of man, say as a prophet, These are the words of the Lord: Say, A sword, a sword which has been made sharp and polished:

    10It has been made sharp to give death; it is polished so that it may be like a thunder-flame: ...

    11And I have given it to the polisher so that it may be taken in the hand: he has made the sword sharp, he has had it polished, to put it into the hand of him who gives death.

  • 1 Sam 17:21
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    21And Israel and the Philistines had put their forces in position, army against army.

  • 1 Sam 14:20-22
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    20And Saul and all the people with him came together and went forward to the fight: and every man's sword was turned against the man at his side, and there was a very great noise.

    21Then the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines for some time, and had gone up with them to their tents, turning round were joined to those who were with Saul and Jonathan.

    22And all the men of Israel who had taken cover in the hill-country of Ephraim, hearing that the Philistines had been put to flight, went after them, attacking them.

  • Eccl 10:9-10
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    69%

    9He who gets out stones from the earth will be damaged by them, and in the cutting of wood there is danger.

    10If the iron has no edge, and he does not make it sharp, then he has to put out more strength; but wisdom makes things go well.

  • 1 Sam 13:4-6
    3 verses
    68%

    4And all Israel had the news that Saul had made an attack on the Philistines, and that Israel was bitterly hated by the Philistines. And the people came together after Saul to Gilgal.

    5And the Philistines came together to make war on Israel, three thousand war-carriages and six thousand horsemen and an army of people like the sands of the sea in number: they came up and took up their position in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.

    6When the men of Israel saw the danger they were in, (for the people were troubled,) they took cover in cracks in the hillsides and in the woods and in rocks and holes and hollows.

  • 1 Sam 17:19
    68%

    19Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

  • 1 Chr 20:3
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    3And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and axes. And this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.

  • Prov 27:17
    68%

    17Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.

  • Isa 44:12
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    12The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.

  • 1 Chr 14:13
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    13Then the Philistines again went out in every direction in the valley.

  • 1 Sam 4:9
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    9Be strong, O Philistines, be men! Do not be servants to the Hebrews as they have been to you: go forward to the fight without fear.

  • 1 Sam 23:1
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    1And they sent word to David, saying, The Philistines are fighting against Keilah and taking the grain from the grain-floors.

  • 2 Sam 21:15
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    15And the Philistines went to war again with Israel; and David went down with his people, and while they were at Gob they had a fight with the Philistines:

  • 2 Kgs 6:4-5
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    4So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they got to work cutting down trees.

    5But one of them, while cutting a board, let the head of his axe go into the water; and he gave a cry, and said, This is a bad business, my master, for it is another's.

  • 1 Sam 7:7
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    7Now when the Philistines had news that the children of Israel had come together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And the children of Israel, hearing of it, were full of fear.

  • 1 Sam 25:13
    67%

    13And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.

  • 1 Sam 17:1-3
    3 verses
    67%

    1Now the Philistines got their armies together for war, and came together at Socoh in the land of Judah, and took up their position between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes-dammim.

    2And Saul and the men of Israel came together and took up their position in the valley of Elah, and put their forces in order against the Philistines.

    3The Philistines were stationed on the mountain on one side and Israel on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.

  • 1 Sam 29:1
    67%

    1Now the Philistines got all their army together at Aphek: and the Israelites put their forces in position by the fountain in Jezreel.

  • 1 Sam 17:52
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    52And the men of Israel and of Judah got up, and gave a cry, and went after the Philistines as far as Gath and the town doors of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines were falling down by the road from Shaaraim all the way to Gath and Ekron.

  • 1 Sam 17:41
    67%

    41And the Philistine came nearer to David; and the man who had his body-cover went before him.

  • 1 Sam 21:8
    66%

    8And David said to Ahimelech, Have you no sword or spear with you here? for I have come without my sword and other arms, because the king's business had to be done quickly.

  • Isa 41:7
    66%

    7So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.

  • Song 3:8
    66%

    8All of them armed with swords, trained in war; every man has his sword at his side, because of fear in the night.

  • Judg 20:11
    66%

    11So all the men of Israel were banded together against the town, united like one man.

  • Isa 10:15
    66%

    15Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

  • 1 Sam 17:7
    66%

    7The stem of his spear was as long as a cloth-worker's rod, and its head was made of six hundred shekels' weight of iron: and one went before him with his body-cover.

  • Judg 20:2
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    2And the chiefs of the people, out of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the meeting of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen armed with swords.

  • Judg 13:1
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    1And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.

  • 1 Sam 4:1-2
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    1Now at that time the Philistines came together to make war against Israel, and the men of Israel went out to war against the Philistines and took up their position at the side of Eben-ezer: and the Philistines put their forces in position in Aphek.

    2And the Philistines put their forces in order against Israel, and the fighting was hard, and Israel was overcome by the Philistines, who put to the sword about four thousand of their army in the field.

  • 1 Sam 7:11
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    11And the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and went after the Philistines, attacking them till they came under Beth-car.

  • 1 Chr 10:1
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    1Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel; and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa.

  • Lam 5:13
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    13The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.