19 Not a blacksmith(A) could be found in the whole land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears!(B) 20 So all Israel went down to the Philistines to have their plow points, mattocks, axes and sickles[a] sharpened.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 13:20 Septuagint; Hebrew plow points

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