1 Samuel 13:18-20

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁸ another company turned towards Beth-horon, and another company turned towards the mountain^[a] that looks down upon the valley of Zeboim towards the wilderness.

¹⁹ Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, ‘The Hebrews must not make swords or spears for themselves’; ²⁰ so all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen their ploughshares, mattocks, axes, or sickles;^[b]