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Judges 3:31

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

an ox goad: This implement, Mr. Maundrell informs us, in Palestine and Syria is of an extraordinary size. He measured several, and "found them about eight feet long; and at the bigger end about six inches in circumference. They were armed at the lesser end with a sharp prickle for driving the oxen; and at the other end with a small paddle of iron, strong and massive, for cleansing the plough from the clay. In the hand of a powerful man such an instrument must be more dangerous and fatal than a sword." Judges 15:15; 1 Samuel 13:19-22, 1 Samuel 17:47, 1 Samuel 17:50; 1 Corinthians 1:17

also: Judges 2:16

Israel: "So part is called Israel." Judges 4:1, Judges 4:3-24, Judges 10:7, Judges 10:17, Judges 11:4-33; 1 Samuel 4:1 "It seems to concern only the country next to the Philistines."

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