Zebah ( ''Zeḇaḥ'', "sacrifice", Zebee in the

Brenton Septuagint Translation ''The Septuagint version of the Old Testament'' is a translation of the Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published by Samuel Bagster & Sons, London, in 1844, in English only. From the 1851 edition the Apocrypha were incl ...

and the Douai-Rheims Bible) and Zalmunna (צַלְמֻנָּע ''Ṣalmunnā‘'', "shade denied", Salmana in the Brenton Septuagint Translation and the Douai-Rheims Bible) were the two kings who led the vast host of the

Midian Midian (; he, מִדְיָן ''Mīḏyān'' ; ar, مَدْيَن, Madyan; grc-gre, Μαδιάμ, ''Madiam'') is a geographical place mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and Quran. William G. Dever states that biblical Midian was in the "northwest Ar ...

ites who invaded the land of Israel, and over whom Gideon gained a great and decisive victory (

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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. Their demise is remembered and invoked in : :''Deal with them as with Midian ... yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna''. See also 1 Samuel 12:11 and

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10:26.

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Midian Monarchs of the Hebrew Bible Mythological duos {{Tanakh-stub