1 Samuel 13:17-19

New Catholic Bible

¹⁷ Raiders went out from the camp in Michmash in three groups. One went toward Ophrah into the land of Shual, ¹⁸ another went toward Beth-horon, and the third went toward the border that lay over the Valley of Zeboim near the desert.

¹⁹ There were no blacksmiths in the land of Israel for the Philistines had reasoned, “Otherwise the Hebrews might make swords or spears.”