'Left' in the Bible

also two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left side.”

Then I said to him, “What are these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?”

Then I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be annihilated, let it be annihilated; and let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.”

“In that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves, so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples, while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem.

“It will come about in all the land,”Declares the Lord,“That two parts in it will be cut off and perish;But the third will be left in it.

Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths.