¹⁸ another company turned to the road to ^(A)Beth Horon, and another company turned to the road of the border that overlooks the Valley of ^(B)Zeboim toward the wilderness.

¹⁹ Now ^(C)there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make swords or spears.” ²⁰ But all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen each man’s plowshare, his mattock, his ax, and his sickle;