1 Samuel 13:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

1 Samuel 13:21 —

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Agriculture Ax Farming File Horticulture Husbandman Husbandry Mattock

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-23)

Here, 1. Samuel departs in displeasure. Saul has set up for himself, and now he is left to himself: Samuel gat him from Gilgal (1 Sam. 13:15), and it does not appear that he either prayed with Saul or directed him. Yet in going up to Gibeah of Benjamin, which was Saul’s city, he intimated that he had not quite abandoned him, but waited to do him a kindness another time. Or he went to the college o…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. Yet they had a file--as a kind of privilege, for the purpose of sharpening sundry smaller utensils of husbandry.