Judges 20:16-17
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
20:17 The men of Israel (not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior. 4
1 tn Heb “And from all this people.”
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.
3 tn “at a single hair and not miss.”
4 tn Heb “a man of war.”