1 Samuel 13:19 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁹ Now there was no smith found throughout all Eretz-Yisra'el; for the Pelishtim said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ Now there was no metal worker to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make swords or spears.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:

Common English Bible

¹⁹ No metalworker was to be found anywhere in Israelite territory because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not make swords and spears.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Now there was no worker of iron to be found in all the land of Israel. For the Philistines had been cautious, lest perhaps the Hebrews might make swords or spears.

1 Samuel 13:19 Cross References

2 Kings 24:14

He carried away all Yerushalayim, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

Isaiah 54:16

Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

Jeremiah 24:1

The LORD shown me, and behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nevukhadnetzar 1 king of Bavel had carried away captive Yekhonyah the son of Yehoiakim, king of Yehudah, and the princes of Yehudah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Yerushalayim, and had brought them to Bavel.

Jeremiah 29:2

(after that Yekhonyah the king, and the queen mother, and the eunuchs, [and] the princes of Yehudah and Yerushalayim, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from Yerushalayim),

Judges 5:8

They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Yisra'el?

1 Samuel 13:20

but all the Yisra'eli's went down to the Pelishtim, to sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, axe, and sickle;