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Barnes' Notes on 1 Samuel 13:20

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Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · 19th-century historical commentary
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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. return to 'Top of Page'
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