²⁵ They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb^(A). They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb,^(B) and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites^(C) and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan.^(D)

¹² Zebah and Zalmunna, the two kings of Midian, fled, but he pursued them and captured them, routing their entire army.

¹³ Gideon son of Joash^(A) then returned from the battle by the Pass of Heres.^{(B) 14} He caught a young man of Sukkoth and questioned him, and the young man wrote down for him the names of the seventy-seven officials of Sukkoth,^(C) the elders^(D) of the town. ¹⁵ Then Gideon came and said to the men of Sukkoth, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me by saying, ‘Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your exhausted men?^(E)’” ¹⁶ He took the elders of the town and taught the men of Sukkoth a lesson^(F) by punishing them with desert thorns and briers. ¹⁷ He also pulled down the tower of Peniel^(G) and killed the men of the town.^(H)

¹⁸ Then he asked Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men did you kill at Tabor?^(I)”

“Men like you,” they answered, “each one with the bearing of a prince.”

¹⁹ Gideon replied, “Those were my brothers, the sons of my own mother. As surely as the Lord lives,^(J) if you had spared their lives, I would not kill you.” ²⁰ Turning to Jether, his oldest son, he said, “Kill them!” But Jether did not draw his sword, because he was only a boy and was afraid.

²¹ Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Come, do it yourself. ‘As is the man, so is his strength.’” So Gideon stepped forward and killed them, and took the ornaments^(K) off their camels’ necks.