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1 Samuel 13:18-21
Contemporary English Version
1 Samuel 13:18-21
Contemporary English Version
18 Another patrol would go west along the road to Beth-Horon. A third patrol would go east toward the desert on the road to the ridge that overlooks Zeboim Valley.
19 The Philistines would not allow any Israelites to learn how to make iron tools. “If we allowed that,” they said, “those worthless Israelites would make swords and spears.”
20-21 Whenever the Israelites wanted to get an iron point put on a cattle prod,[a] they had to go to the Philistines. Even if they wanted to sharpen plow-blades, picks, axes, sickles,[b] and pitchforks[c] they still had to go to them. And the Philistines charged high prices.
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