Zebah and Zalmunna

Zebah (Hebrew: זֶ֫בַח‎ Zeḇaḥ, "sacrifice") and Zalmunna (צַלְמֻנָּע Ṣalmunnā‘, "shade denied") were the two kings who led the vast host of the Midianites who invaded the land of Israel, and over whom Gideon gained a great and decisive victory (Judges 8). Zebah and Zalmunna had succeeded in escaping across the Jordan River with a remnant of the Midianite host, but were overtaken at Karkor, probably in the Hauran, and routed by Gideon. The kings were taken alive and brought back across the Jordan; and confessing that they had personally taken part in the killing of Gideon's brothers, they were put to death (compare 1 Samuel 12:11; Isaiah 10:26; Psalms 83:11).

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