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Re: Why are all the lefthanded people from Benjamin?

Posted: Fri May 01, 2026 5:21 am
by Geert van den Bos
Which fits very well to Psalms 110: "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool"

since Psalms 110 is about Genesis 14 where Abram defeated the four kings with assistance of his 318 initiates = Eliezer --

Genesis 14:14, https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cd ... rashi/true
And Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, and he armed his trained men, those born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and he pursued [them] until Dan.

until Dan. עַד־דָּֽן. There he became weak, for he saw that his children were destined to erect a calf there (Sanh. 96a). The reference is to I Kings 12:29: “And he (Jeroboam) placed one in Beth-el, and the other he placed in Dan.”

עַד־דָּֽן cf. וְעַד־עֵ֣ין עֶגְלַ֔יִם in ezekile 47:10 https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cd ... rashi/true

Re: Why are all the lefthanded people from Benjamin?

Posted: Sun May 03, 2026 6:10 am
by Geert van den Bos
RAMcGough wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 11:47 am The name "Benjamin" means "son" (ben) of the "right hand" (yamin)

There are only two mentions of "lefthanded" people in the Bible. They are from the tribe of Benjamin.

Judges 3:15 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.

Judges 20:15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men 16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

And there is one mention of ambidextrous men who "could use both the right hand and the left" also from the tribe of Benjamin.

1Ch 12:2 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 brethren of Benjamin.

What's God trying to tell us?
Judges 3:16,
And Ehud made for himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit was its length; and he girded it under his clothing on his right thigh.

LXX
καὶ ἐποίησεν ἑαυτῷ Αωδ μάχαιραν δίστομον σπιθαμῆς τὸ μῆκος καὶ περιεζώσατο αὐτὴν ὑπὸ τὸν μανδύαν ἐπὶ τὸν μηρὸν τὸν δεξιὸν αὐτοῦ

cf. Hebrews 4:12 (RAM's favorite verse ;) )
Ζῶν γὰρ ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἐνεργὴς καὶ τομώτερος ὑπὲρ πᾶσαν μάχαιραν δίστομον καὶ διϊκνούμενος ἄχρι μερισμοῦ ψυχῆς καὶ πνεύματος, ἁρμῶν τε καὶ μυελῶν, καὶ κριτικὸς ἐνθυμήσεων καὶ ἐννοιῶν καρδίας·


μάχαιρα = a large knife, dagger; a sword,

"dagger" is an edenic of Hebrew "daqar" that occurs in Zechariah 12:10, וְהִבִּ֥יטוּ אֵלַ֖י אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁר־דָּקָ֑רוּ
https://biblehub.com/hebrew/1856.htm

"daqar" also in Numbers 25:8, describing an event that is commemorated on the 33rd day of the omer-count, i.e. coming tuesday
https://www.hidabroot.com/article/19769

33rd day called "hod shè b'hod" i.e. the fifth day of the fifth week, highlighting the number 5 , value of the letter "hey"that was added to "shishi"in Genesis 1:21 and also thethe name Abram in Genesis 17:5