* left-handed.
   {Itter yad yemeeno,} "obstructed in his right hand;" so the
   Chaldee Targum, {gemid beedaih deyammeena,} contracted or
   impeded in his right hand."  Le Clerc observes, that the 700
   men left-handed seem therefore to have been made slingers,
   because they could not use the right hand, which is employed
   in managing heavier arms; and they could discharge the stones
   from the sling in a direction against which their opponents
   were not upon their guard, and thus do the greater execution.

  3:15  1Ch 12:2 
 * sling stones.
   The sling was a very ancient warlike instrument; and, in the
   hands of those who were skilled in the use of it, produced
   astonishing effects.  The inhabitants of the islands of
   Baleares, now Majorca and Minorca, were the most celebrated
   slingers of antiquity.  They did not permit their children to
   break their fast, till they had struck down the bread they had
   to eat from the top of a pole, or some distant eminence.
   Vegetius tells us, that slingers could in general hit the mark
   at 600; feet distance.

  1Sa 17:40,49,50  25:29  2Ch 26:14