What does the Bible say about left hand of god?
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The Bible does not present “the left hand of God” as a fixed doctrine, but uses right and left imagery to communicate wisdom, honor, judgment, and human character. Proverbs 3:16 pictures Wisdom holding long life in her right hand and riches and honor in her left, showing that all true blessings come from God’s wise ordering. Ecclesiastes 10:2-3 contrasts the wise heart inclined to the right with the fool’s to the left, a figurative moral contrast rather than a statement about handedness. In Matthew 25:32-33, Christ places the sheep at his right and the goats at his left in final judgment. Yet Judges 3:15 shows God graciously using left-handed Ehud to deliver Israel.
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- Proverbs 3:16
Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
- Ecclesiastes 10:2-3
[2] A wise man's heart is at his right hand, but a fool's heart at his left. [3] Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.
- Matthew 25:32-33
[32] Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. [33] He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
- Judges 3:15
But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised them up a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
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