Ox goad

This is an article from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.\nThis article is written from a nineteenth century Christian viewpoint, and may not reflect modern opinions or recent discoveries in Biblical scholarship.\nPlease help the Wikipedia by bringing this article up to date. Ox goad - mentioned only in Judg. 3:31, the weapon with which Shamgar\n(q.v.) slew six hundred Philistines. "The ploughman still\ncarries his goad, a weapon apparently more fitted for the hand\nof the soldier than the peaceful husbandman. The one I saw was\nof the 'oak of Bashan,' and measured upwards of ten feet in\nlength. At one end was an iron spear, and at the other a piece\nof the same metal flattened. One can well understand how a\nwarrior might use such a weapon with effect in the battle-field"\n(Porter's Syria, etc.). (See Goad.)