1 Samuel 13:19

New American Bible - revised edition

Not a single smith was to be found anywhere in Israel, for the Philistines had said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears.”

Cross References

2 Kings 24:14

He deported all Jerusalem: all the officers and warriors of the army, ten thousand in number, and all the artisans and smiths. Only the lowliest of the people of the land were left.

Jeremiah 24:1

The Lord showed me two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord. This was after Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had exiled from Jerusalem Jeconiah, son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, the artisans and smiths, and brought them to Babylon.

Judges 5:8

New gods were their choice; then war was at the gates. No shield was to be found, no spear, among forty thousand in Israel!

Isaiah 54:16

See, I have created the smith who blows on the burning coals and forges weapons as his work; It is I also who have created the destroyer to work havoc.

1 Samuel 13:20

All Israel, therefore, had to go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.

Jeremiah 29:2

This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the court officials, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the artisans and smiths had left Jerusalem.