Why are all the lefthanded people from Benjamin?
Posted: 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?
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?