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.
Could use
In hurling
Bible References
Could use
Judges 3:15
But when the Israelis cried out to the LORD, the LORD raised up Gera's son Ehud, a left-handed descendant of Benjamin, as a deliverer for them. The Israelis paid tribute through him to king Eglon of Moab.
Judges 20:16
Out of all these soldiers, 700 of them were left-handed and each one could sling a stone at a hair and never miss.
In hurling
1 Samuel 17:49
David reached his hand into the bag, took out a stone, slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead. The stone sunk into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.