Shamgar
| Judges |
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| Othniel |
| Ehud |
| Shamgar |
| Deborah and Barak |
| Gideon |
| Abimelech |
| Tola |
| Jair |
| Jephtha |
| Ibzan |
| Elon |
| Abdon |
| Samson |
| Eli |
| Samuel |
| edit |
The Philistines from the maritime plain had made incursions into the Hebrew upland for the purposes of plunder, when Shamgar, the son of Anath, 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).
This entry incorporates text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897, with some modernisation.
| Preceded by: Ehud | Judges of Israel | Succeeded by: Deborah |