1. Judges 3:31 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Was Shamgar divinely appointed?

Judges 3:31 (ESV)

31 After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.

The narrator ties this account to Ehud’s narrative by using the words after him [Ehud] and he [Shamgar] also saved Israel. The Lord, then, who raised up Ehud as a deliverer (Judges 3:15), was also behind Shamgar's being raised up as a deliverer.1