--- title: "The Danites Settle in Laish" description: "Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you done this to us? Why did..." image: "" book: "Judges" bookId: "JDG" testament: "old" startChapter: 8 startVerse: 1 endChapter: 8 endVerse: 13 coversChapters: [8] aiTitle: "The Danites Settle in Laish" aiDescription: "Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you done this to us? Why did..." hasAiStory: true location: "Karkor" persons: ["Ephraim","Gideon","God","Jogbehah","Nobah","Oreb","Penuel","Succoth","Zalmunna","Zebah","Zeeb"] hashtags: ["deliverance","judgment","war"] genre: "history" readingTime: 2 type: "adaptive" slug: "JDG/the-danites-settle-in-laish" canonicalId: "JDG.8.1-8.13" chronologicalOrder: 453 relatedSlugs: [] prevSlug: "JDG/gideon-defeats-midian" nextSlug: "JDG/the-danites-take-micahs-idols" --- ### Gideon Defeats Zebah and Zalmunna Then the men of [Ephraim](/persons/ephraim) said to [Gideon](/persons/gideon), “Why have you done this to us? Why did you fail to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they contended with him violently. But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer? [God](/persons/god) has delivered [Oreb](/persons/oreb) and [Zeeb](/persons/zeeb), the two princes of Midian, into your hand. What was I able to do compared to you?” When he had said this, their anger against him subsided. Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit. So Gideon said to the men of [Succoth](/persons/succoth), “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still pursuing [Zebah](/persons/zebah) and [Zalmunna](/persons/zalmunna), the kings of Midian.” But the leaders of Succoth asked, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your possession, that we should give bread to your army?” “Very well,” Gideon replied, “when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness!” From there he went up to [Penuel](/persons/penuel) and asked the same from them, but the men of Penuel gave the same response as the men of Succoth. So Gideon told the men of Penuel, “When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower!” Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army of about fifteen thousand men—all that were left of the armies of the people of the east. A hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had already fallen. And Gideon went up by way of the caravan route east of [Nobah](/persons/nobah) and [Jogbehah](/persons/jogbehah), and he attacked their army, taking them by surprise. When Zebah and Zalmunna fled, Gideon pursued and captured these two kings of Midian, routing their entire army. After this, Gideon son of Joash returned from the battle along the Ascent of Heres.

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