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The best rendering of the pa age is perhaps as follows: But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen whenever there was blunt…

Yet they had a file for the mattocks ... —This translation, the sense of which is not very clear, is supported by the Tar…

Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters,
and for the forks, and for the axes

Consider how shrewd the Philistines were when they held power; they not only prevented the people of Israel from making weapons of war but also com…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes