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Shamgar
A judge named in a single verse: the son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an ox goad, and he also saved Israel. Deborah's song remembers his days as a time when the highways were abandoned and travellers kept to the byways.
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Bible — stated in scripture (with verse) · 1
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JudgesAfter him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad. He also saved Israel.
Judges 3:31 — Delivers Israel with an ox-goad
“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.
Judges 5:6
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.
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