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1 Chronicles 12:2

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.

KJV

tendentes arcum, et utraque manu fundis saxa jacientes, et dirigentes sagittas, de fratribus Saul ex Benjamin.

Vulgate

καὶ τόξῳ ἐκ δεξιῶν καὶ ἐξ ἀριστερῶν, καὶ σφενδονῆται ἐν λίθοις καὶ τόξοις, ἐν τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς Σαοὺλ ἐκ Βενιαμείν·

LXX

They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow: they were of Saul’s brethren of Benjamin.

ASV

נֹ֣שְׁקֵי קֶ֗שֶׁת מַיְמִינִ֤ים וּ/מַשְׂמִאלִים֙ בָּֽ/אֲבָנִ֔ים וּ/בַ/חִצִּ֖ים בַּ/קָּ֑שֶׁת מֵ/אֲחֵ֥י שָׁא֖וּל מִ/בִּנְיָמִֽן

Hebrew

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In this verse

People BenjaminSaul

In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣בֶן
'bn
noun · 267×
בִנְיָמִ֔ן
bnymn
proper_noun · 167×
ו
v
noun · 629×
ו
v
noun · 45×
יִּשַּׁק
yshq
verb · 35×
מַיְמִינִ֤ים
mymynym
verb · 4×
מַשְׂמִאלִים֙
mshm'lym
verb · 5×
קֶ֣שֶׁת
qsht
noun · 76×
שָׁא֔וּל
sh'vl
proper_noun · 404×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 12:29 — And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.
  • Judg 3:15 — But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Egl
  • Judg 3:15 — But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Egl
  • Judg 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.
  • Judg 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.