Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
Forsoþe no smyyth of yrun was foundun in al þe lond of Israel; for Filisteis weren war, eþer eschewiden, lest perauenture Ebreis maden a swerd eþer a spere.