Judges 20:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

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.