1 Chronicles 12:2
and using the bow with the right hand and with the left, and slingers with stones, and shooters with bows. Of the brethren of Saul of Benjamin,
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Judges 3:15And the children of Israel cried to the Lord; and he raised up to them a saviour, Aod the son of Gera a + 3:15 i. e. Benjamite.son of Jemeni, a man + 3:15 Or, able to use his left hand as his right. q. d. with two right hands.who used both hands alike: and the children of Israel sent gifts by his hand to Eglom king of Moab.
1 Samuel 17:49And David stretched out his hand to his scrip, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine on his forehead, and the stone penetrated through the helmet into his forehead, and he fell upon his face to the ground. + 17:49 Verse 50 is not in the Vatican codex. Alex. has the following.
1 Chronicles 12:29And Sadoc, a young man mighty in strength, and there were twenty-two leaders of his father's house.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 12:2-23
David's Army. ( b. c. 1055.) 1 Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war. 2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin. 3 The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the… Read the whole commentary →