Judges 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. Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
Among all this people were seven hundred chosen men of Benjamin who were left-handed, every one able to sling stones at a hair's breadth and not miss, with extraordinary precision. Such skill with the sling was also known elsewhere, as in the Balearic Islands where children were trained to hit targets with slings. The tribe's warlike ability accords with Jacob's saying that Benjamin would ravin as a wolf, which points to its warlike disposition.
The verse belongs to what happened at Gibeah of Benjamin over the disgraceful murder of the Levite's concubine, which nearly resulted in the extermination of the tribe of Benjamin. Gibeah means high and lies on the route past Mizpeh toward Jerusalem, within an hour's walk of Jerusalem, opposite Anathoth and a little more than a mile from Nob. It stands 2,690 feet above the sea, about 200 feet higher than Jerusalem, and commands a fine view even beyond the Dead Sea far into the mountains of Moab.
The verse stands in the closing chapters of Judges, which record Israel's backsliding into a low and corrupt state before the call of Samuel the prophet, with the disgrace and punishment that followed, showing that sin is never excused. In Judges 20 Benjamin had become the least and nearly extinct tribe, and God in divine wisdom later selected Israel's king from this tribe in order to remove all grounds of jealousy among the other tribes.