1 Samuel 13:19

2 Kings 24:14; Isaiah 54:16; Jeremiah 24:1; Judges 5:8

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There was no smith - This was the result of the fierce inroads described in the preceding verses, and the method adopted to make the Philistine c...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 13, 14. Saul's Early Struggles with the Philistines. (J), chiefly from the ancient narrative concerning Saul. Editorial notes, or addition...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

no smith . This explains why Ehud had to make his own dagger ( Judges 3:16 ); why Shamgar had only an ox-goad ( Judges 3:31 ); why Samson "had nothi...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears: Now there wa...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears: Now th...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Saul's War against the Philistines 1. The age of Saul at his accession has fallen out of the text and also one of the two numbers representing the...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Now there was no smith found. — We must allow a year, perhaps two or three, to have elapsed while “Saul and Jonathan... abode in Gibeah,” during wh...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XVIII SAUL AND SAMUEL AT GILGAL 1 Samuel 13:1-23 . THE first thing that claims our attention in connection with this chapter is the qu...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Left in the Spoilers' Hands 1 Samuel 13:13-23 Sternly and sorrowfully the old prophet pronounced the sentence of Saul's deposition, and suggest...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

There is some difficulty concerning the opening sentences of this chapter. Some words seem to be omitted, which make it difficult to place the events...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(17) And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the la...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel ,.... The Philistines, when they ruled over them, having removed them into their own...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make [them] swords or spears: Ver. 19....
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

There was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel To this miserable condition the Philistines had reduced them during the forty years' tyr...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Hebrew scholars consider that either something is missing from verse 1 in the Hebrew manuscripts or that the whole verse was not originally in the te...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Israelites' Low Condition. B. C. 1067....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This was a politic course of the Philistines, which also other nations have used. So the Chaldeans took away their smiths, 2 Kings 24:14 Jeremiah...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Samuel 13:1 . A literal rendering of the Hebrew text in this verse would stand thus— Saul was years old when he began to reign, and he reigned, an...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 13:1 . One year two years. The Seventy have not translated this verse. Something is wanting to fill up the sense; and it is supposed to b...
The Biblical Illustrator

Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel. The blacksmith’s captivity What a scalding subjugation for the Israelites! The...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SAUL 'S PROBATION AND FAILURE ( CHS . 13-15.). EXPOSITION WAR AGAINST THE PHILISTINES (verse 1-14:46). 1 Samuel 13:1 Saul'...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Oppression of the Philistines
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Now, there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears; so the Philis...

¹⁹ Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:

Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 13:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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