no smith. This explains why Ehud had to make his own dagger (Jdg_3:16); why Shamgar had only an ox-goad (Jdg_3:31); why Samson "had nothingin his hand" (Jdg_14:5-6); and why "not a shield or spear among 40,000 in Israel" (Jdg_5:9). In other days we read of how many "drew sword".