Showing posts with label Benjamin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benjamin. Show all posts

3 References to left-handed Benjaminites


Several have pointed out that the only references to left-handed people in the Bible are to people from the tribe of Benjamin, whose name ironically means, son of my right hand. The refernces are positive not pejorative.

Judges 3:15 Ehud Again the Israelites cried out to the LORD, and he gave them a deliverer - Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite. The Israelites sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
Judges 700 Benjaminite specialists 20:16 Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred select troops who were left-handed, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
1 Chronicles 12:1, 2 Relatives of Saul who served David These were the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was banished from the presence of Saul son of Kish (they were among the warriors who helped him in battle;  they were armed with bows and were able to shoot arrows or to sling stones right-handed or left-handed; they were relatives of Saul from the tribe of Benjamin):

13 Towns allotted to Aaron's sons in Judah, Simeon and Benjamin Joshua 21

Joshua 21:1-19
Now the family heads of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the other tribal families of Israel  at Shiloh in Canaan and said to them, "The LORD commanded through Moses that you give us towns to live in, with pasturelands for our livestock." So, as the LORD had commanded, the Israelites gave the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their own inheritance: 
The first lot came out for the Kohathites, according to their clans. The Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest were allotted thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin. 
...
So the Israelites allotted to the Levites these towns and their pasturelands, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.
 From the tribes of Judah and Simeon they allotted the following towns by name (these towns were assigned to the descendants of Aaron who were from the Kohathite clans of the Levites, because the first lot fell to them): 
They gave them

Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pastureland, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.) But the fields and villages around the city they had given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession. So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron (a city of refuge for one accused of murder),
Libnah, 
Jattir,
Eshtemoa, 
Holon,
Debir, 
Ain,
Juttah
and Beth Shemesh, together with their pasturelands - nine towns from these two tribes. And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave them
Gibeon,
Geba, 
Anathoth
and Almon, together with their pasturelands--four towns. 

The total number of towns for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, came to thirteen, together with their pasturelands. 

26 Towns in the Territory of Benjamin listed in Joshua 18


Joshua 18:21-28
The tribe of Benjamin, according to its clans, had the following towns:

Jericho,
Beth Hoglah,
Emek Keziz,
Beth Arabah,
Zemaraim,
Bethel,
Avvim,
Parah,
Ophrah,
Kephar Ammoni,
Ophni
and Geba
 - twelve towns and their villages.

Gibeon,
Ramah,
Beeroth,
Mizpah,
Kephirah,
Mozah,
Rekem,
Irpeel,
Taralah,
Zelah,
Haeleph,
the Jebusite city (that is, Jerusalem),
Gibeah
and Kiriath
- fourteen towns and their villages. This was the inheritance of Benjamin for its clans.