¹⁸ another company turned toward ^(A)Beth-horon; and another company turned toward the border that looks down on the Valley of ^(B)Zeboim toward the wilderness.

^19 (C)Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.” ²⁰ But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle,^[a]