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Left-handed men in the Bible
5 passages of the Berean Standard Bible, line by line, from Nave’s Topical Bible.
- Ehud son of Gera was a left-handed BenjamiteJudg 3:15
The verses
Judg 3:15And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
- He strapped a sword a cubit long to his right thighJudg 3:16
The verses
Judg 3:16Now Ehud had made for himself a double-edged sword a cubit long. He strapped it to his right thigh under his cloak
- With his left hand he drew it and killed King EglonJudg 3:21–22
The verses
Judg 3:21–22And Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and plunged it into Eglon’s belly. Even the handle sank in after the blade, and Eglon’s fat closed in over it, so that Ehud did not withdraw the sword from his belly. And Eglon’s bowels emptied.
- Benjamin had 700 left-handers who could sling a stone at a hairJudg 20:16
The verses
Judg 20:16Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
- David's Benjamite archers slung and shot with either hand1 Chr 12:2
The verses
1 Chr 12:2they were archers using both the right and left hands to sling stones and shoot arrows; and they were Saul’s kinsmen from Benjamin):
Sources
From Nave’s Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1896; public domain): subjects chosen, lines shortened and put into modern words, lines of interpretation left out; each verse checked.
Berean Standard Bible · Public domain