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15 On that day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand swordsmen, in addition to the inhabitants of Gibeah, who mustered seven hundred picked men 16 [a]who were left-handed, every one of them able to sling a stone at a hair without missing. 17 The men of Israel, without Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand swordsmen, all of them warriors.

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  1. 20:16 The strange notice that the Gibeahite warriors were left-handed was probably added here under the influence of the Ehud story; cf. 3:15 and the note there.