3 And the sons of Israel began to cry out to Jehovah,+ because he had nine hundred war chariots with iron scythes,*+ and he himself oppressed the sons of Israel+ with harshness twenty years.

19 Now there was not a smith to be found in all the land of Israel, because the Phi·lisʹtines had said: “That the Hebrews may not make a sword or a spear.”+