Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

In hurling

Bible References

Could use

Judges 3:15
Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjaminite, as a deliverer for them. The Israelites sent him to Eglon king of Moab with tribute money.
Judges 20:16
There were 700 choice men who were left-handed among all these people; all could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

In hurling

1 Samuel 17:49
David put his hand in the bag, took out a stone, slung it, and hit the Philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.

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