1 Kings 13:20
So all Israel went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his ploughshare, and his spade, and his axe, and his rake.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Descendebat ergo omnis Israël ad Philisthiim, ut exacueret unusquisque vomerem suum, et ligonem, et securim, et sarculum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ κατέβαινον πᾶς Ἰσραὴλ εἰς γῆν ἀλλοφύλων χαλκεύειν ἕκαστος τὸ θέριστρον αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ σκεῦος, καὶ ἕκαστος τὴν ἀξίνην αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ δρέπανον αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֵּרְד֥וּ כָל יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים לִ֠לְטוֹשׁ אִ֣ישׁ אֶת מַחֲרַשְׁתּ֤וֹ וְאֶת אֵתוֹ֙ וְאֶת קַרְדֻּמּ֔וֹ וְאֵ֖ת מַחֲרֵשָׁתֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
All Israel, whom the Philistines had conquered, particularly the neighbouring tribes. (Calmet)
They were obliged to go to the places where the enemy kept garrisons, (Menochius) as they did at Gabaa, Bethel, &c.
Share. Septuagint, Syriac, &c., "scythe," or "sickle for corn;" theristerion. (Haydock)
The original term, macharesha, may signify all sorts of implements.
Spade. Hebrew is supposed to mean, "a coulter." Septuagint, "instrument," which the prophets often say will be turned into a sword, in times of war, Joel iii. 15., and Micheas iv. 3.
Rake. The same generical term is used in Hebrew as was before translated a plough-share. Septuagint have "scythe;" drepanon. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.