I love it. It's one of my favorite stories. I'm left-handed and have suffered from right-handed bigotry for my entire life. I'm clumsy because I was forced to learn to play all sports right-handed in public school. I've read that if I was in the presence of jihadis, I could well be killed because they see left-handed people as evil. Another term for left-handed is sinister. So, I love the fact that the Lord does not have that bigotrous side to his character [blowing a raspberry]. >chuckle<
I loved this story when i studied through Judges. There were so many great ones, and many horrific ones. I believe this one was meant to ease some of the tension God knew we would feel reading the other ones. I did laugh too when I read it the first time. And I took his left handedness to be how God shows He uses the most unlikely and unfancy (sometimes even unskilled) of people to do His work.
The servants muttering about Eglon possibly using the ‘chamber’ reminds me of Elijah's taunt about Ba'al on Mt. Carmel. Isaiah 44 doesn't have the bathroom aspect, but it is pretty funny in how it describes idolatry and what man does (how silly he looks) in forming an idol.
Pretty sure my Sunday School never even went near Ehud 🤣
Even I think it’s safe to say most didn’t LOL
I first learned about this story in undergrad and it was my favorite thing.
I love it. It's one of my favorite stories. I'm left-handed and have suffered from right-handed bigotry for my entire life. I'm clumsy because I was forced to learn to play all sports right-handed in public school. I've read that if I was in the presence of jihadis, I could well be killed because they see left-handed people as evil. Another term for left-handed is sinister. So, I love the fact that the Lord does not have that bigotrous side to his character [blowing a raspberry]. >chuckle<
I loved this story when i studied through Judges. There were so many great ones, and many horrific ones. I believe this one was meant to ease some of the tension God knew we would feel reading the other ones. I did laugh too when I read it the first time. And I took his left handedness to be how God shows He uses the most unlikely and unfancy (sometimes even unskilled) of people to do His work.
The servants muttering about Eglon possibly using the ‘chamber’ reminds me of Elijah's taunt about Ba'al on Mt. Carmel. Isaiah 44 doesn't have the bathroom aspect, but it is pretty funny in how it describes idolatry and what man does (how silly he looks) in forming an idol.