Hakim-hakim 20:16

20:16 Among this army ¹  were seven hundred specially-trained left-handed soldiers. ²  Each one could sling a stone and hit even the smallest target. ³ 

Hakim-hakim 20:1

Civil War Breaks Out

20:1 All the Israelites from Dan to Beer Sheba ⁴  and from the land of Gilead ⁵  left their homes ⁶  and assembled together ⁷  before the Lord at Mizpah.

1 Tawarikh 12:2

12:2 They were armed with bows and could shoot arrows or sling stones right or left-handed. They were fellow tribesmen of Saul from Benjamin. ⁸ ) These were: ⁹ 

[20:16]  ¹ tn Heb “And from all this people.”

[20:16]  ² tn Heb “seven hundred choice men, bound/restricted in the right hand.” On the significance of the idiom, “bound/restricted in the right hand,” see the translator’s note on 3:15.

[20:16]  ³ tn “at a single hair and not miss.”

[20:1]  ⁴ sn Dan was located in the far north of the country, while Beer Sheba was located in the far south. This encompassed all the territory of the land of Canaan occupied by the Israelites.

[20:1]  ⁵ sn The land of Gilead was on the eastern side of the Jordan River.

[20:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “went out.”

[20:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the assembly was convened as one man.”

[12:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “ones armed with bow[s], using the right hand and the left hand with stones and with arrows with the bow, from the brothers of Saul from Benjamin.”

[12:2]  ⁹ tn The words “These were” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons, because of the length of the intervening material since the beginning of the verse.