Judges 3:31
And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who smote six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox-goad, and he also saved Israel.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
30So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest eighty years.
Cross References
Judges 2:16And LORD raised up judges who saved them out of the hand of those who despoiled them.
Judges 4:3And the sons of Israel cried to LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he mightily oppressed the sons of Israel twenty years.
Judges 5:8They chose new gods, then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Judges 10:11And LORD said to the sons of Israel, [Did] not [I save you] from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the sons of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
Judges 11:4And it came to pass after a while, that the sons of Ammon made war against Israel.
1 Samuel 4:1And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.
Matthew Henry on Judges 3:13-31
Israel Oppressed by Eglon; Eglon Slain by Ehud. ( b. c. 1336.) 12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord : and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord . 13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees. 14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. 15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord , the… Read the whole commentary →