Judges 20:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁶ Among all these 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.

Judges 20:16 Krydshenvisninger

1 Chronicles 12:2

They were bowmen, and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right or the left hand; they were Benjaminites, Saul's kinsmen.

2 Chronicles 26:14

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

Judges 20:17

And the men of Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand men that drew sword; all these were men of war.

Judges 3:15

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

1 Samuel 17:40

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

1 Samuel 25:29

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