Show left handedness rife in tribe of benjamin no passage in the bible justifies the common belief be lef that all the descendants of benjamin were left handed the tribe of benjamin was always the smallest of the tribes of israel and left handedness seems to have been more common among them than among other people judges 20 15 16 says 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 gibeau which were numbered seven hundred chosen men among all this people there were seven hun dred chosen men left handed every one could sling stones at a hair breadth and not miss judges 3 15 says in part but when the children of israel cried unto the lord the lord raised them up a deliverer ehud the eon son of gera a Benjan alte a man left handed I 1 chron 12 2 indicates that they were ambidextrous 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 pathfinder magazine |