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Shamgar

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: S By: James P. Boyd

Judges 3:31; 5:6

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(sword). A judge of Israel who slew 600 Philistines with an ox-goad (Judg. 3:31; 5:6³¹And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel. (Judges 3:31)
⁶In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. (Judges 5:6)).

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