Shamgar's Oxgoad: Courage When Surrounded by Six Hundred
Shamgar son of Anath stands among history's most singular warriors. Surrounded in open field by six hundred Philistine desperadoes bent on plunder and death—not cornered...
This is historical examples on divine selection through faithfulness and character transcends circumstance, drawing on Judges 19:31.
Shamgar son of Anath stands among history's most singular warriors. Surrounded in open field by six hundred Philistine desperadoes bent on plunder and death—not cornered at Thermopylae where numbers meant nothing—he wielded only an oxgoad against overwhelming odds. The Philistines witnessed their own slaughter at every blow, yet continued fighting until the last man fell, demonstrating that men will sacrifice their lives for evil causes with the same ferocity they give to righteous ones.…
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