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Judges 8:12

Zebah and Zalmunna fled, but Gideon’s men pursued them and captured them and all their warriors.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.

In Context

11Gideon and his men went east along the road on which caravans travel. They went past Nobah and Jogbehah villages and arrived at the enemy camp by surprise.

13After that, Gideon and his men took Zebah and Zalmunna with them and started to return, going through Heres Pass.

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Cross References

Joshua 10:22Then Joshua said, “Open the entrance of the cave, and bring out to me those five kings!”

Job 34:19He does not favor rulers more than he favors others; he does not favor rich people more than poor people, because he created all of them.

Isaiah 9:3Yahweh, you will cause us people in Israel to rejoice; we will become very happy. We will rejoice about what you have done like [SIM] people rejoice when they harvest their crops, or like soldiers rejoice when they divide up among themselves the things that they have captured in a battle.

Revelation 6:15As a result, all the rebellious people of the earth, including kings, high-ranking people, generals, the rich people, the powerful people, along with everyone else, both slave and free, hid themselves in caves and between the mountain rocks.

Matthew Henry on Judges 8:5-18

Gideon Pursues the Midianites. ( b. c. 1249.) 4 And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them. 5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian. 6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army? 7 And Gideon said, Therefore when… Read the whole commentary →

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