"Biblical times" spans a lot of time. The Bronze Age ended about 1200 BC (per Wikipedia). That's within the book of Judges in the Bible, that is, some distance through the Old Testament History.

One interesting tidbit (and I'm going to be lazy and not look up the references): There is a time when the Israelites don't have iron working, but the Philistines do. The Israelites have to go to the Philistines to get their iron implements sharpened, taking them to a town that translates as "smith of the goyim".