Judges 3:29-31

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²⁹They killed about 10,000 strong and brave men from Moab. Not one Moabite man escaped. ³⁰So on that day the Israelites began to rule over the Moabites, and there was peace in the land for 80 years.

Shamgar, the Judge

³¹After Ehud saved the Israelites, another man saved Israel. That man’s name was Shamgar son of Anath.^[a] Shamgar used an ox goad to kill 600 Philistine men.

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Footnotes

Judges 3:31 Anath The Canaanite goddess of war. Here, this might be Shamgar’s father or mother, or it might mean “Shamgar the great soldier” or “Shamgar from the town of Anath.”