Judges 20:16

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Judges 3:15

Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and 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 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.

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.

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 pouch. His sling was in his hand, and he approached the Philistine.

Judges 20:17

And the men of Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered 400,000 men who drew the sword; all these were men of war.