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18 One division turned on the road[a] to Beth Horon, and one turned on the road[b] toward the border overlooking the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

19 Now no skilled craftsman could be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had said, “So that the Hebrews cannot make swords or spears for themselves.” 20 So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to have his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his iron plowshare[c] sharpened.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 13:18 Or “way”
  2. 1 Samuel 13:18 Or “way”
  3. 1 Samuel 13:20 So the Masoretic Hebrew text; LXX reads “sickle”