Gideon Pursues Zebah and Zalmunna Across the Jordan to Karkor

Judges 8 narrates Gideon's relentless pursuit of the two surviving Midianite kings after the rout at the Spring of Harod. Crossing the Jordan with his exhausted three hundred men, Gideon was refused bread by the elders of Succoth and Penuel — both of whom he would punish on his return. He surprised Zebah and Zalmunna at Karkor in the eastern desert: "Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east... And he came upon the host: for the host was secure" (Judges 8:10-11). Gideon executed both kings personally after they admitted killing his brothers at Tabor.

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