Judges 20:16

20:16 Among this army ¹  were seven hundred specially-trained left-handed soldiers. ²  Each one could sling a stone and hit even the smallest target. ³ 

Judges 20:1

Civil War Breaks Out

20:1 All the Israelites from Dan to Beer Sheba ⁴  and from the land of Gilead ⁵  left their homes ⁶  and assembled together ⁷  before the Lord at Mizpah.

Judges 12:2

12:2 Jephthah said to them, “My people and I were entangled in controversy with the Ammonites. ⁸  I asked for your help, but you did not deliver me from their power. ⁹ 

[20:16]  ¹ tn Heb “And from all this people.”

[20:16]  ² tn Heb “seven hundred 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.

[20:16]  ³ tn “at a single hair and not miss.”

[20:1]  ⁴ sn Dan was located in the far north of the country, while Beer Sheba was located in the far south. This encompassed all the territory of the land of Canaan occupied by the Israelites.

[20:1]  ⁵ sn The land of Gilead was on the eastern side of the Jordan River.

[20:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “went out.”

[20:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the assembly was convened as one man.”

[12:2]  ⁸ tn Heb A man of great strife I was and my people and the Ammonites.”

[12:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “hand.”