Judges 3:15 (KJV)

Text size

But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD the LORD raised them up a deliverer Ehud the son of Gera a Benjamite a man lefthanded and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab

☆ Save 🖍 Highlight Read in context →

Cross-references

A.M. 2679. B.C. 1325. An. Ex. Is. 166. cried unto. Jud 3:9 Ps 50:15 Ps 78:34 Ps 90:15 Jer 29:12 Jer 29:13 Jer 33:3

a Benjamite. or, the son of Jemini. left-handed. Heb. shutof his right hand. This Hebrew phrase intimates that, either through disease or disuse, he made little or no use of the right hand, but of his left only, and so was the less fit for war, because he would most likely wield a dagger awkwardly: yet God chose this left-handed man to be the minister of his retributive justice. It was God's right hand that gained Israel the victory, Ps 44:3; not the right hand of the instruments he employed. Jud 20:16 1Ch 12:2

sent a present. 1Sa 10:27 Pr 18:16 Pr 19:6 Pr 21:14 Isa 36:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain