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
And the sons of Israel will cry to Jehovah, and Jehovah will raise up to them a saviour, Ehud, son of Gera, son of a Benjamite, a man shut up of his right hand: and the sons of Israel will send a gift by his hand to Eglon, king of Moab.
Judges 20:16
From all this people, seven hundred chosen men shut up of the right hand, slinging at a hair, and they will not miss.
In hurling
1 Samuel 17:49
And David will stretch forth his hand to the vessel and take from thence a stone and sling and strike him of the rovers into his forehead, and the stone will sink into his forehead; and he will fall upon his face to the earth.