What Does the Bible Say About Left Handed People?

Judges 3:15 ESV / 68 helpful votes

Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

Judges 20:16 ESV / 63 helpful votes

Among all these were 700 chosen men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

1 Chronicles 12:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes

They were bowmen and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right or the left hand; they were Benjaminites, Saul's kinsmen.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Proverbs 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.

Acts 21:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was to unload its cargo.

Ecclesiastes 10:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left.

2 Chronicles 3:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south, the other on the north; that on the south he called Jachin, and that on the north Boaz.

Genesis 13:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.”

Luke 1:37 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Matthew 25:41 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Matthew 6:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

Ecclesiastes 10:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.

Proverbs 4:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

Deuteronomy 28:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Genesis 48:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near him.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

2 Corinthians 6:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

By truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;

Romans 1:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 20:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine are to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.”

Jonah 4:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”

Song of Solomon 2:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me!

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

John 3:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

Matthew 6:3-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

2 Chronicles 23:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And he set all the people as a guard for the king, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Ephesians 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

2 Corinthians 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

1 Corinthians 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

Romans 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

John 3:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Mark 12:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.

Matthew 25:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.

Zechariah 12:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.

Daniel 2:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,

Ezekiel 41:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the doors of the side chambers opened on the free space, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. And the breadth of the free space was five cubits all around.

Ezekiel 31:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land, and all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it.

Jeremiah 40:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.

Jeremiah 39:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, left in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

Jeremiah 31:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest,

Isaiah 11:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And there will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant that remains of his people, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 10:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My hand has found like a nest the wealth of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken, so I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved a wing or opened the mouth or chirped.”

Proverbs 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching.

2 Chronicles 31:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Azariah the chief priest, who was of the house of Zadok, answered him, “Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the Lord, we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left, for the Lord has blessed his people, so that we have this large amount left.”

2 Chronicles 8:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,

2 Kings 25:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And over the people who remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, governor.

2 Kings 25:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile.

1 Kings 9:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel—

2 Samuel 17:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I will come upon him while he is weary and discouraged and throw him into a panic, and all the people who are with him will flee. I will strike down only the king,

2 Samuel 16:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.

1 Samuel 11:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the next day Saul put the people in three companies. And they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

Joshua 10:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish. And Joshua struck him and his people, until he left none remaining.

Joshua 8:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. They left the city open and pursued Israel.

Deuteronomy 32:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.

Deuteronomy 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So the Lord our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, and we struck him down until he had no survivor left.

Numbers 21:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So they defeated him and his sons and all his people, until he had no survivor left. And they possessed his land.

60 Bible Verses about Left Handed People

Judges 3:15 ESV / 68 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Judges 20:16 ESV / 63 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Chronicles 12:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 21:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 10:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Chronicles 3:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 13:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:37 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:41 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 10:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 4:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 28:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 48:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 6:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 20:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jonah 4:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 2:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:3-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Chronicles 23:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 12:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Zechariah 12:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 2:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 41:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 31:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 40:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 39:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 31:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 11:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 10:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Chronicles 31:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Chronicles 8:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 25:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 25:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 9:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 17:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 16:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 11:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 10:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 8:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 32:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 21:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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