Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And among all these folk were seven hundred left handed men, which every one could sling stones at a hair breadth, and not miss.
New American Standard Bible
Out of all these people 700
King James Version
Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
Holman Bible
There were 700 choice men who were left-handed among all these people; all could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
International Standard Version
Out of all these soldiers, 700 of them were left-handed and each one could sling a stone at a hair and never miss.
A Conservative Version
Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed. Every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.
American Standard Version
Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.
Amplified
Out of all these people were seven hundred choice
Bible in Basic English
Who were left-handed, able to send a stone at a hair without error.
Darby Translation
Among all these were seven hundred picked men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair, and not miss.
Julia Smith Translation
From all this people, seven hundred chosen men shut up of the right hand, slinging at a hair, and they will not miss.
King James 2000
Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men, left-handed; every one could sling stones at a hair's breadth, and not miss.
Lexham Expanded Bible
From all these troops [were] seven hundred well-trained men {who were left-handed}; each one could sling with a stone at a hair and not miss.
Modern King James verseion
Among all this people were seven hundred chosen men, left-handed. Every one could sling stones at a hair's breadth, and not miss.
NET Bible
Among this army were seven hundred specially-trained left-handed soldiers. Each one could sling a stone and hit even the smallest target.
New Heart English Bible
Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair and not miss.
The Emphasized Bible
Out of all this people, were seven hundred chosen men, left-handed, - any one of whom could sling with a stone to a hair's-breadth, and not miss.
Webster
Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; every one could sling stones to a hair-breadth, and not miss.
World English Bible
Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.
Youngs Literal Translation
among all this people are seven hundred chosen men, bound of their right hand, each of these slinging with a stone at the hair, and he doth not err.
Themes
Benjamin » Tribe of » Skill in archery and as slingers of stones
tribe of Benjamin » Almost annihilated for protecting the men of gibeah
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Judges 20:16
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Context Readings
The Punishment Of Benjamin
15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time, out of the cities: twenty six thousand men that drew swords, beside the inhabiters of Gibeah which were numbered seven hundred chosen men. 16 And among all these folk were seven hundred left handed men, which every one could sling stones at a hair breadth, and not miss. 17 And the children of Israel, beside the children of Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew swords, and all men of war.
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Judges 3:15
And then they cried unto the LORD. And the LORD stirred them up a saver, Ehud the son of Gera, the son of Jemini, a man that could do nothing handsomely with his right hand. And when the children of Israel sent a present by him unto Eglon the king of the Moabites,
1 Chronicles 12:2
weaponed with bows, and could handle stones, arrows and bow as well with the left hand as with the right, and were of Saul's brethren, even of the tribe of Benjamin.
1 Samuel 17:40
and took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of a brook and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, and in a poke; and took a sling in his hand, and went to the Philistine.
1 Samuel 17:49-50
And David put his hand in his poke and took out a stone and slung it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead that the stone sunk into his forehead, and he fell groveling to the earth.
1 Samuel 25:29
And if any man rise to persecute thee and to seek thy soul, the soul of my lord be bound in a bundle of life with the LORD thy God. And the souls of thy enemies be slung in the middle of a sling.
2 Chronicles 26:14
And Uzziah provided them, throughout all the host, shields, spears, helmets, habergeons, bows and slings for stones.