Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
There was no
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Bible References
There was no
Judges 5:8
They chose new gods; then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
2 Kings 24:14
And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the leaders, and all the mighty men of war, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except the poorest sort of the people of the land.
Isaiah 54:16
Behold, I have created the smith who blows the coals in the fire, and who brings out a tool for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
Jeremiah 24:1
Jehovah caused me to see, and behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Jehovah (after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had exiled Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the rulers of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon);
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Deuteronomy 28:43
The stranger within you shall get up above you very high, and you shall come down very low.