Verse 16
Judges 20:16
Bible in Basic English
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Who were left-handed, able to send a stone at a hair without error.
Original Language Text
hebrew
מִ/כֹּ֣ל הָ/עָ֣ם הַ/זֶּ֗ה שְׁבַ֤ע מֵאוֹת֙ אִ֣ישׁ בָּח֔וּר אִטֵּ֖ר יַד יְמִינ֑/וֹ כָּל זֶ֗ה קֹלֵ֧עַ בָּ/אֶ֛בֶן אֶל הַֽ/שַּׂעֲרָ֖ה וְ/לֹ֥א יַחֲטִֽא
English Translation
From all this people, seven hundred chosen men are left-handed; all these are skilled with the sling and can shoot a hair and not miss.
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Chapter 20 Context
1
Then all the children of Israel took up arms, and the people came together like one man, from Dan to...
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And the chiefs of the people, out of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the meeting of t...
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(Now the children of Benjamin had word that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the c...
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4
Then the Levite, the husband of the dead woman, said in answer, I came to Gibeah in the land of Benj...
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And the townsmen of Gibeah came together against me, going round the house on all sides by night; it...
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6
So I took her, cutting her into parts which I sent through all the country of the heritage of Israel...
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7
Here you all are, you children of Israel; give now your suggestions about what is to be done.
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8
Then all the people got up as one man and said, Not one of us will go to his tent or go back to his...
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9
But this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by the decision of the Lord;
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10
And we will take ten men out of every hundred, through all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of ev...
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11
So all the men of Israel were banded together against the town, united like one man.
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12
And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin saying, What is this evil which...
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13
Now give up those good-for-nothing persons in Gibeah so that we may put them to death, clearing away...
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14
And the children of Benjamin came together from all their towns to Gibeah, to go to war with the chi...
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15
And the children of Benjamin who came that day from the towns were twenty-six thousand men armed wit...
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16
Who were left-handed, able to send a stone at a hair without error.
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And the men of Israel, other than Benjamin, were four hundred thousand in number, all armed with swo...
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18
And they got up and went up to Beth-el to get directions from God (Elohim), and the children of Isra...
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19
So the children of Israel got up in the morning and put themselves in position against Gibeah.
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20
And the men of Israel went out to war against Benjamin (and the men of Israel put their forces in fi...
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21
Then the children of Benjamin came out from Gibeah, cutting down twenty-two thousand of the Israelit...
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22
But the people, the men of Israel, taking heart again, put their forces in order and took up the sam...
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23
Now the children of Israel went up, weeping before the Lord till evening, requesting the Lord and sa...
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24
So the children of Israel went forward against the children of Benjamin the second day.
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25
And the second day Benjamin went out against them from Gibeah, cutting down eighteen thousand men of...
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26
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up to Beth-el, weeping and waiting there b...
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27
And the children of Israel made request to the Lord, (for the ark of the agreement of the Lord was t...
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28
And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, was in his place before it,) and said, Am I stil...
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So Israel put men secretly all round Gibeah to make a surprise attack on it.
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30
And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themse...
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31
And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, moving away from the town; and as before,...
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And the children of Benjamin said, They are giving way before us as at first. But the children of Is...
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So all the men of Israel got up and put themselves in fighting order at Baal-tamar: and those who ha...
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34
And they came in front of Gibeah, ten thousand of the best men in all Israel, and the fighting becam...
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35
Then the Lord sent sudden fear on Benjamin before Israel; and that day the children of Israel put to...
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So the children of Benjamin saw that they were overcome: and the men of Israel had given way before...
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And the watchers, rushing on Gibeah and overrunning it, put all the town to the sword without mercy.
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Now the sign fixed between the men of Israel and those making the surprise attack was that when they...
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The men of Israel were to make a turn about in the fight. And Benjamin had overcome and put to death...
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40
Then the sign went up out of the town in the pillar of smoke, and the Benjamites, turning back, saw...
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41
And the men of Israel had made a turn about, and the men of Benjamin were overcome with fear, for th...
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42
So turning their backs on the men of Israel, they went in the direction of the waste land; but the f...
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43
And crushing Benjamin down, they went after them, driving them from Nohah as far as the east side of...
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44
Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin came to their death, all strong men of war.
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45
And turning, they went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land: and on the highways five t...
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46
So twenty-five thousand of the swordsmen of Benjamin came to their end that day, all strong men of w...
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47
But six hundred men, turning back, went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land, and were...
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48
And the men of Israel, turning again against the children of Benjamin, put to the sword without merc...
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