But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines - We find from this that they did not grant them as much as Porsenna did to the Romans; he permitted the people to manufacture the implements of husbandry.
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1 Samuel 13:20
20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.