Juges 20.16 [Références croisées TSKe]

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LSG Jg 20:16 Parmi tout ce peuple, il y avait sept cents hommes d'élite qui ne se servaient pas de la main droite ; tous ceux-là pouvaient, en lançant une pierre avec la fronde, viser à un cheveu sans le manquer.

KJV Jg 20:16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

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lefthanded

Itter yad yemeeno, "obstructed in his right hand;" so the Chaldee Targum, gemid beedaih deyammeena, contracted or impeded in his right hand." Lev. Clerc observes, that the 700 men left-handed seem therefore to have been made slingers, because they could not use the right hand, which is employed in managing heavier arms; and they could discharge the stones from the sling in a direction against which their opponents were not upon their guard, and thus do the greater execution. *Judg 3:15
*1Ch 12:2

sling stones

The sling was a very ancient warlike instrument; and, in the hands of those who were skilled in the use of it, produced astonishing effects. The inhabitants of the islands of Baleares, now Majorca and Minorca, were the most celebrated slingers of antiquity. They did not permit their children to break their fast, till they had struck down the bread they had to eat from the top of a pole, or some distant eminence. Vegetius tells us, that slingers could in general hit the mark at 600 feet distance. 1Sa 17:40, 49, 50, *25:29
*2Ch 26:14

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