1 Samuel 13

1 Samuel 13:13

For now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

That kingdom, whereinto thou wert elected, should have been, all thy life, established unto thee; which now, by this sin, thou hast lost the right unto, ere thou be thoroughly settled in it.

1 Samuel 13:19

Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel.

Such was the jealousy and tyranny of the Philistines over their tributaries, the Israelites, that as they had despoiled them of those weapons, which were taken from the Ammonites, so they would not suffer a smith amongst them, who might furnish them with new.