John Gill's Exposition on 1 Samuel 13:21

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, etc.] Those that would not go to the Philistines, or were not able, or thought it too much trouble, these kept files by them to sharpen those several instruments with upon occasion; though the words are by some rendered in connection with the preceding, to this sense, that they went to the Philistines to sharpen them, when the mouths, or edges, of the mattocks, coulters, etc. were dull; or “blunt” f258; and so needed sharpening; and even to sharpen the goads; with which they pricked and pushed on the oxen in ploughing, when sluggish and remiss.

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