Shamgar: The Philistines from the maritime plain had made incursions into the
Hebrew upland for the purposes of plunder, when one of this name, the
son of Anath, otherwise unknown, headed a rising for the purpose of
freeing the land from this oppression. He repelled the invasion,
slaying 600 men with an "ox goad" (q.v.). The goad was a formidable
sharpointed instrument, sometimes ten feet long. He was probably
contemporary for a time with Deborah and Barak
(Judges 3:31; 5:6)
