Judges 20:16-18

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¹⁶ Among all these trained soldiers, seven hundred were left-handed [3:15], each of whom could sling a stone at a hair and not miss [1 Sam. 17:49]!

¹⁷ The Israelites, except for the Benjaminites, gathered 400,000 ·soldiers with swords [men who drew the sword, all of them men of war].

¹⁸ The ·Israelites [^Lsons/^Tchildren of Israel] went up to the ·city of Bethel [or house of God; ^Cthe meaning of the name “Bethel”] and asked God, “·Which tribe [^LWho] shall be first to attack the Benjaminites?”

The Lord answered, “Judah shall go first.”