The next leader was Shamgar son of Anath. He too rescued Israel, and did so by killing six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad.

Sisera was so tired that he fell sound asleep. Then Jael took a hammer and a tent peg, quietly went up to him, and killed him by driving the peg right through the side of his head and into the ground.

He divided his three hundred men into three groups and gave each man a trumpet and a jar with a torch inside it.

five of you will be able to defeat a hundred, and a hundred will be able to defeat ten thousand.

Any one of you can make a thousand men run away, because the LORD your God is fighting for you, just as he promised.

Jonathan said to the young man, "Let's cross over to the camp of those heathen Philistines. Maybe the LORD will help us; if he does, nothing can keep him from giving us the victory, no matter how few of us there are."

In that first slaughter Jonathan and the young man killed about twenty men in an area of about half an acre.

He reached into his bag and took out a stone, which he slung at Goliath. It hit him on the forehead and broke his skull, and Goliath fell face downward on the ground.

And so, without a sword, David defeated and killed Goliath with a sling and a stone!

God purposely chose what the world considers nonsense in order to shame the wise, and he chose what the world considers weak in order to shame the powerful.

He chose what the world looks down on and despises and thinks is nothing, in order to destroy what the world thinks is important.