'Hands' in the Bible

For you became imitators, brothers, of the churches of God [which] are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you also suffered the same [things] at the hands of your own people, just as [they] themselves [did] also at the hands of the Jews,

and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to {your own business}, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you,