Hands, The

Hands, The

Necessary members of the body - 1Co 12:21

PARTS OF, MENTIONED

• The palm
- Isa 49:16; Mt 26:67
• The thumb
- Ex 29:20; Le 14:14,17
• The fingers
- 2Sa 21:20; Da 5:5

God strengthens - Ge 49:24

God makes impotent - Job 5:12

OPERATIONS OF, MENTIONED

• Feeling
- Ps 115:7; 1Jo 1:1
• Taking
- Ge 3:22; Ex 4:4
• Holding
- Jud 7:20; Re 10:2
• Working
- Pr 31:19; 1Th 4:11
• Writing
- Isa 44:5; Ga 6:11
• Making signs
- Isa 13:2; Ac 12:17
• Striking
- Mr 14:65; Joh 19:3

DISTINGUISHED AS

• The right
- Ac 3:7
• The left
- Ge 14:15; Ac 21:3

Many alike expert with both - 1Ch 12:2

Many had more command of the left - Jud 3:15,21; 20:16

THE RIGHT HAND

• Place of honour
- 1Ki 2:19; Ps 45:9
• Place of power
- Ps 110:1; Mr 14:62
• Signet worn on
- Jer 22:24
• Given in token of friendship
- Ga 2:9
• Used in embracing
- 2Sa 20:9; So 2:6; 8:3
• Sworn by
- Isa 62:8
• The accuser stood at, of the accused
- Ps 109:6; Zec 3:1
• Of priests touched with blood of consecration-ram
- Ex 29:20; Le 8:23,24
• Of healed leper touched with blood of his sacrifice
- Le 14:14,17,25
• Of healed leper touched with oil
- Le 14:28

The Jews carried a staff in, when walking - Ex 12:11; 2Ki 4:29

The Jews eat with - Mt 26:23

WERE WASHED

• Before eating
- Mt 15:2; Mr 7:3
• After touching an unclean person
- Le 15:11
• In token of innocency
- De 21:6,7; Mt 27:24

Custom of domestics pouring water upon, alluded to - 2Ki 3:11

Servants directed by movements of - Ps 123:2

Kissed in idolatrous worship - Job 31:27

Treaties made by joining - 2Ki 10:15; Pr 11:21

Suretiship entered into by striking - Job 17:3; Pr 6:1; 17:18; 22:26

WERE LIFTED UP

• In prayer
- Ps 141:2; La 3:41
• In praise
- Ps 134:2
• In taking an oath
- Ge 14:22; Re 10:5
• In blessing
- Le 9:22

Often spread out in prayer - Ps 68:31; Isa 1:15

Placed under the thigh of a person to whom an oath was made - Ge 24:2,3; 47:29,31

Clapped together in joy - 2Ki 11:12; Ps 47:1

Smitten together in extreme anger - Nu 24:10; Eze 21:14,17

Stretched out in derision - Ho 7:5; Zep 2:15

IMPOSITION OF, USED IN

• Transferring guilt of sacrifices
- Le 1:4; 3:2; 16:21,22
• Setting apart the Levites
- Nu 8:10
• Conferring civil power
- Nu 27:18; De 34:9
• Blessing
- Ge 48:14; Mr 10:16
• Ordaining ministers
- Ac 6:6; 1Ti 4:14
• Imparting the gifts of the Holy Spirit
- Ac 8:17; 19:6

Imposition of, a first principle of the doctrine of Christ - Heb 6:1,2

SHOULD BE EMPLOYED

• Industriously
- Eph 4:28; 1Th 4:11
• In God's service
- Ne 2:18; Zec 8:9,13
• In acts of benevolence
- Pr 3:27; 31:20

OF THE WICKED, DESCRIBED AS

• Bloody
- Isa 1:15; 59:3
• Violent
- Ps 58:2; Isa 59:6
• Mischievous
- Ps 26:10; Mic 7:3
• Slothful
- Pr 6:10; 21:25
• Ensnaring to themselves
- Ps 9:16

The wicked recompensed for the work of - Ps 28:4; Pr 12:14; Isa 3:11

Saints blessed in the work of - De 2:7; 30:9; Job 1:10; Ps 90:17

CRIMINALS OFTEN

• Bound by
- Mt 22:13
• Deprived of
- De 25:12; 2Sa 4:12
• Mutilated in
- Jud 1:6,7
• Hung by
- La 5:12

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of power
- 1Ki 18:46; 2Ki 13:5
• (Lifted up against another,) of rebellion
- 2Sa 20:21
• (Opened,) of liberality
- De 15:8; Ps 104:28
• (Shut,) of illiberality
- De 15:7

RIGHT HAND, ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of strength and power
- Ex 15:6; Ps 17:7
• (Holding by,) of support
- Ps 73:23; Isa 41:13
• (Standing at,) of protection
- Ps 16:8; 109:31; 110:5
• (Full of bribes,) of corruption
- Ps 26:10
• (Full of falsehood,) of deceitfulness
- Ps 144:8,11; Isa 44:20
• (Withdrawn,) of support withheld
- Ps 74:11

(Cutting off,) of extreme self-denial - Mt 5:30