Shamgar
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| Gideon |
| Abimelech |
| Tola |
| Jair |
| Jephtha |
| Ibzan |
| Elon |
| Abdon |
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The Philistines from the maritime plain had made incursions into the Hebrew upland for the purposes of plunder, when Shamgar, the son of Anath (Hebrew שמגר בן־ענת), otherwise unknown, headed an uprising for the purpose of freeing the land from this oppression. Shamgar repelled the invasion by slaying 600 men with an ox goad, a formidable weapon sometimes ten feet long. He was probably contemporary for a time with Deborah and Barak (Judg. 3:31; 5:6).
See also
Anath ‘Anat in IsraelReferences
- This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.
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