1 Samuel 13:19

Lighthouse Bible 2006

Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, So that the Hebrews do not make for themselves swords or spears:

Cross References

2 Kings 24:14

And he took away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, except the poorest sort of the people of the land.

Isaiah 54:16

Behold, I have created the blacksmith that blows the coals in the fire, and that brings forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the plunderer to destroy.

Jeremiah 24:1

The LORD showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

Jeremiah 29:2

(After Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem;)

Judges 5:8

They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

1 Samuel 13:20

But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, and his colter, and his axe, and his hoe.