Shamgar

Shamgar son of Anath was one of the judges of Israel who delivered the nation from Philistine oppression, remembered for killing six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad (Judges 3:31). He is also mentioned in the Song of Deborah (Judges 5:6) as a figure in whose day the roads were abandoned and travelers took to byways. His non-Israelite name and the unusual weapon suggest a figure on the margins of Israelite society who nevertheless became an instrument of divine deliverance.