1 Samuel 13:19

Modern English Version

Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel. For the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make for themselves swords or spears.”

Cross References

2 Kings 24:14

He exiled all Jerusalem, all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths. No one remained, except the poorest people of the land.

Isaiah 54:16

Behold, I have created the smith who blows the coals in the fire and who brings forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the destroyer in order to cause ruin.

Jeremiah 24:1

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

Jeremiah 29:2

(This was after Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, and the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem.)

Judges 5:8

They were choosing new gods, and warfare was at the city gates, but not a shield or spear was to be seen among forty thousand in Israel.

1 Samuel 13:20

So all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plow-point, his axe, his sickle and his hoe.