Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Judges 3:15

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am 2679, bc 1325, An, Ex, Is, 166 cried unto: Jdg 3:9; Psa 50:15, Psa 78:34, Psa 90:15; Jer 29:12, Jer 29:13, Jer 33:3 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, Psa 44:3; not the right hand of the instruments he employed. Jdg 20:16; Ch1 12:2 sent a present: Sa1 10:27; Pro 18:16, Pro 19:6, Pro 21:14; Isa 36:16 Judges 3:16

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