Judges 20:15-16

20:15 That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah. ¹  20:16 Among this army ²  were seven hundred specially-trained left-handed soldiers. ³  Each one could sling a stone and hit even the smallest target. ⁴ 

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¹ tn Heb “besides from the ones living in Gibeah they mustered seven hundred choice men.”

² tn Heb “And from all this people.”

³ 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.

⁴ tn “at a single hair and not miss.”