1 Chronicles 12:2
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Bending the bow, and using either hand in hurling stones with slings, and shooting arrows: of the brethren of Saul of Benjamin.

Judges 3:15
And afterwards they cried to the Lord, who raised them up a saviour, called Aod, the son of Cera, the son of Jemini, who used the left hand as well as the right. And the children of Israel sent presents to Eglon, king of Moab, by him.

Judges 20:16
Who were seven hundred most valiant men, fighting with the left hand as well as with the right: and slinging stones so sure that they could hit even a hair, and not miss by the stone's going on either side.

1 Chronicles 12:3
The chief was Ahiezer, and Joas, the sons of Samoa of Gabaath, and Jaziel, and Phallet the sons of Azmoth, and Beracha, and Jehu an Anathothite.

1 Chronicles 12:29
And of the sons of Benjamin the brethren of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto a great part of them followed the house of Saul.

Psalm 78:9
The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.

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Bending the bow, and using either hand in hurling stones with slings, and shooting arrows: of the brethren of Saul of Benjamin.

could use

Judges 3:15 And afterwards they cried to the Lord, who raised them up a saviour, called Aod, the son of Cera, the son of Jemini, who used the left hand as well as the right. And the children of Israel sent presents to Eglon, king of Moab, by him.

Judges 20:16 Who were seven hundred most valiant men, fighting with the left hand as well as with the right: and slinging stones so sure that they could hit even a hair, and not miss by the stone's going on either side.

in hurling

1 Samuel 17:49 And he put his hand into his scrip, and took a stone, and cast it with the sling, and fetching it about, struck the Philistine in the forehead, and he fell on his face upon the earth.

Context
The Mighty Men Join David at Ziklag
1Now these are they that came to David to Siceleg, while he yet fled from Saul the son of Cis, and they were most valiant and excellent warriors, 2Bending the bow, and using either hand in hurling stones with slings, and shooting arrows: of the brethren of Saul of Benjamin.3The chief was Ahiezer, and Joas, the sons of Samoa of Gabaath, and Jaziel, and Phallet the sons of Azmoth, and Beracha, and Jehu an Anathothite.…
Lexicon
they were archers
נֹ֣שְׁקֵי (nō·šə·qê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 5401: To kiss, to equip with weapons

using both the right
מַיְמִינִ֤ים (may·mî·nîm)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3231: To go to or choose the right, to use the right hand

and left
וּמַשְׂמִאלִים֙ (ū·maś·mi·lîm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8041: To use the left hand, pass in that direction)

[to sling] stones
בָּֽאֲבָנִ֔ים (bā·’ă·ḇā·nîm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 68: A stone

and [to shoot] arrows;
וּבַחִצִּ֖ים (ū·ḇa·ḥiṣ·ṣîm)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2671: A piercer, an arrow, a wound, thunderbolt, the shaft of a, spear

[they were] Saul's
שָׁא֖וּל (šā·’ūl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7586: Saul -- first king of Israel, also an Edomite and two Israelites

kinsmen
מֵאֲחֵ֥י (mê·’ă·ḥê)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 251: A brother, )

from Benjamin:
מִבִּנְיָמִֽן׃ (mib·bin·yā·min)
Preposition-m | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1144: Benjamin -- 'son of the right hand', youngest son of Jacob, also the name of two other Israelites


Additional Translations
they were archers using both the right and left to sling stones and to shoot arrows; they were Saul's kinsmen from Benjamin: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 brothers of Benjamin.

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.

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,

armed with bows, using both the right hand and the left with stones and with arrows on the bow; [they were] of Saul's brethren of Benjamin:

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.

They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones, and shooting arrows from a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

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 brothers of Benjamin.

armed with bow, right and left handed, with stones, and with arrows, with bows, of the brethren of Saul, of Benjamin.
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