Judges 20:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Of all this force, there were seven hundred picked men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Among all these were 700 chosen left-handed men; every one could sling stones at a hair and not miss.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Out of this entire army, seven hundred specially chosen men were left-handed, and every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ who were seven hundred very strong men, fighting with the left hand as well as with the right hand, and casting stones from a sling so accurately that they were able to strike even a hair, and the path of the stone would by no means miss to either side.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Who were seven hundred most valiant men, fighting with the left hand as well as with the right: and slinging stones so sure that they could hit even a hair, and not miss by the stone's going on either side.

Judges 20:16 Krydshenvisninger

1 Chronicles 12:2

They were archers and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right hand or the left; they were Benjaminites, Saul’s kindred.

2 Chronicles 26:14

Uzziah provided for all the army the shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.

Judges 20:17

And the Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand armed men, all of them warriors.

Judges 3:15

But when the Israelites cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud son of Gera, a Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The Israelites sent tribute by him to King Eglon of Moab.

1 Samuel 17:40

Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the wadi and put them in his shepherd’s bag, in the pouch; his sling was in his hand, and he drew near to the Philistine.

1 Samuel 25:29

If anyone should rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living under the care of the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.