Judges 20:16 Parallel Translations

Out of all these troops, the best 700 were left-handed. Each could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.(GOD'S WORD®)

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

Who were left-handed, able to send a stone at a hair without error.

DBY:

Among all these were seven hundred picked men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair, and not miss.

ERV:

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

JPS:

All this people, even seven hundred chosen men, were left-handed; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.

WBS:

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

WEB:

Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.

YLT:

among all this people are seven hundred chosen men, bound of their right hand, each of these slinging with a stone at the hair, and he doth not err.

Judges 20:16 Cross References

XREF:

Judges 3:15 But when the sons of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for them, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. And the sons of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

1 Chronicles 12:2 They were equipped with bows, using both the right hand and the left to sling stones and to shoot arrows from the bow; they were Saul's kinsmen from Benjamin. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

20:16 Not miss - An hyperbolical expression, signifying, that they could do this with great exactness. And this was very considerable and one ground of the Benjamites confidence.

MHC:

17:7-13 Micah thought it was a sign of God's favour to him and his images, that a Levite should come to his door. Thus those who please themselves with their own delusions, if Providence unexpectedly bring any thing to their hands that further them in their evil way, are apt from thence to think that God is pleased with them.

CONC:

Able Bound Breadth Choice Chosen Err Error Hair Hair-breadth Hundred Lefthanded Left-handed Miss Picked Seven Sling Slinging Stone Stones

Able Bound Breadth Choice Chosen Err Hair Hundred Left-Handed Miss Picked Right Seven Sling Slinging Stone Stones

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