From Nave’s Topical Bible
Mattock
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 3Passages listed
- 2Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- General scriptures concerning1 Samuel 13:201 Samuel 13:21Isaiah 7:25
The passages, in Bible order (3)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 3 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- 1 Samuel 13:20
Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
Commentary on 1 Samuel 13:202 voices
Therefore all Israel descended to the Philistines, etc. And today, some descend, leaving behind the elevation of the word of God, to which they ought to have ascended to hear, and they listen to worldly fables and doctrines of demons, and by reading philosophers, rhetoricians, …
Bede· Commentary on Samuel, 735Patristic
30. All these things are indeed described so that the manner of the victory that followed might be made clear. For armed men were conquered by the unarmed, so that everything that is overcome might be attributed to the praises of Almighty God. But if we pursue these things spiritually in our customary manner, we will not find them devoid of mysteries. What then does it mean when it says: "No blacksmith was found in Israel," except that for spiritual battles we are instructed not through secular letters but through divine ones?
Gregory the Dialogist· Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 3, 604Patristic
- 1 Samuel 13:21
The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.
Commentary on 1 Samuel 13:212 voices
Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
32. The edges are not said to be bent back or worn down, but blunted. For if they were bent back or worn down, they would cut nothing at all. But a blunted edge, even if it does not quickly cut through everything, does cut certain things placed before it with the delay of labor. So indeed are the hearts of the simple, which, if they do not subtly understand spiritual things, yet because they slowly understand certain things, possess a sharpness of mind that is not keen but blunted.
Gregory the Dialogist· Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 3, 604Patristic
- Isaiah 7:25
For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
Commentary on Isaiah 7:252 voices
And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
And on all hills ... - All the fertile places in the mountains that used to be cultivated with the spade. Vineyards were often planted on the sides of hills; and those places were among the most productive and fertile in the land; see Isa 5:1. The mattock - The spade; the garden hoe; or the weeding-hook. An instrument chiefly used, probably, in vineyards. There shall not come thither - There shall not be. The fear of briers and thorns - This does not make sense; or if it does, it is not a sense consistent with the connection.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical