“but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his own plowshare, mattock, ax, and sickle.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Samuel 13 contains 23 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.