10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with a force of about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of the armies of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had fallen.(A) 11 Gideon went up by the route of the nomads east of Nobah(B) and Jogbehah(C) and attacked the unsuspecting army. 12 Zebah and Zalmunna, the two kings of Midian, fled, but he pursued them and captured them, routing their entire army.

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10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men remained from the entire army[a] of the people of the east; those that fell in battle were one hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen.[b] 11 And Gideon went up the route of those who dwell in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and he attacked the army[c] when it was off its guard.[d] 12 And Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he routed[e] the entire army.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 8:10 Or “camp”
  2. Judges 8:10 Literally “sword-drawing men”
  3. Judges 8:11 Or “camp”
  4. Judges 8:11 Or “unsuspecting”
  5. Judges 8:12 Or “he frightened” or “he threw into panic”
  6. Judges 8:12 Or “camp”