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Judges 3:15

Judges 3:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

am 2679, bc 1325, An, Ex, Is, 166

cried unto: ; , , ; ,

a Benjamite: or, the son of Jemini

lefthanded: Heb. shut of 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, ; not the right hand of the instruments he employed. ;

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