SHAMGAR, or Samgar, Son of Anath, Judg. iii. 31.who was the third Judge of Israel, after Ehud, and before Barak. The Scripture informs us of none of the Particulars of his Administration, except that he defended Israel, and kill’d six hundred Philistines with an Ox-goad. From the Peace obtain’d by Ehud in the Year of the World 2679, to whom Shamgar succeeded, ‘till the Servitude under the Canaanites, which happen’d in 2699, are twenty Years.
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