1 Samuel 11:2

that I may thrust out all your right eyes Such barbarities are not unknown in the East even now. Vambéry describes the blinding of prisoners as a regular practice at Khiva. Travels in Central Asia, p. 138. The savage character of the Ammonites is attested by Amos 1:13. The loss of the right eye was intended to disable them for war, the left eye being covered by the shield, as the amputation of his thumbs and great toes (Judges 1:7-8) was designed to incapacitate a man for the use of the bow and destroy his swiftness of foot.