1 Samuel 13:20

World English Bible (2000)

but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, axe, and sickle;

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

    21yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

    22So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.

    23The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.

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

    18and another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

    19Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears;"

  • Joel 3:10
    71%

    10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'

  • Ezek 21:9-11
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    70%

    9Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;

    10it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it condemns every tree.

    11It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the killer.

  • 1 Sam 17:21
    70%

    21Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

  • 1 Sam 14:20-22
    3 verses
    69%

    20Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle: and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, [and there was] a very great confusion.

    21Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines as before, and who went up with them into the camp, [from the country] all around, even they also [turned] to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

    22Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.

  • Eccl 10:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9Whoever carves out stones may be injured by them. Whoever splits wood may be endangered thereby.

    10If the axe is blunt, and one doesn't sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.

  • 1 Sam 13:4-6
    3 verses
    68%

    4All Israel heard that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was had in abomination with the Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.

    5The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.

    6When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits.

  • 1 Sam 17:19
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    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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    3He brought forth the people who were therein, and cut [them] with saws, and with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

  • Prov 27:17
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    17Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance.

  • Isa 44:12
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    12The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.

  • 1 Chr 14:13
    67%

    13The Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley.

  • 1 Sam 4:9
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    9Be strong, and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!"

  • 1 Sam 23:1
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    1David was told, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors."

  • 2 Sam 21:15
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    15The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;

  • 2 Kgs 6:4-5
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    4So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

    5But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, "Alas, my master! For it was borrowed."

  • 1 Sam 7:7
    67%

    7When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 25:13
    67%

    13David said to his men, "Every man put on his sword!" Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David; and two hundred stayed by the baggage.

  • 1 Sam 17:1-3
    3 verses
    67%

    1Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.

    2Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

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

  • 1 Sam 29:1
    67%

    1Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel.

  • 1 Sam 17:52
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    52The men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until you come to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath, and to Ekron.

  • 1 Sam 17:41
    67%

    41The Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him.

  • 1 Sam 21:8
    66%

    8David said to Ahimelech, "Isn't there here under your hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste."

  • Isa 41:7
    66%

    7So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good;" and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.

  • Song 3:8
    66%

    8They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, because of fear in the night.

  • Judg 20:11
    66%

    11So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

  • Isa 10:15
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    15Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

  • 1 Sam 17:7
    66%

    7The staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: and his shield bearer went before him.

  • Judg 20:2
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    2The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.

  • Judg 13:1
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    1The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

  • 1 Sam 4:1-2
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    1The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.

    2The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was struck before the Philistines; and they killed of the army in the field about four thousand men.

  • 1 Sam 7:11
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    11The men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and struck them, until they came under Beth Kar.

  • 1 Chr 10:1
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    1Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.

  • Lam 5:13
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    13The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.