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Judges 20:15-17
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15 That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities 26,000 sword-wielding soldiers, besides 700 well-trained soldiers from Gibeah.[a] 16 Among this army[b] were 700 specially trained left-handed soldiers.[c] Each one could sling a stone and hit even the smallest target.[d] 17 The men of Israel (not counting Benjamin) had mustered 400,000 sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 20:15 tn Heb “besides from the ones living in Gibeah they mustered 700 choice men.”
  2. Judges 20:16 tn Heb “And from all this people.”
  3. Judges 20:16 tn Heb “700 choice men, bound/restricted in the right hand.” On the significance of the idiom, “bound/restricted in the right hand,” see the translator’s note on 3:15.
  4. Judges 20:16 tn “at a single hair and not miss.”
  5. Judges 20:17 tn Heb “a man of war.”
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