10. Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their camp, about fifteen thousand men, all the ones who were left from the easterners’ entire camp. One hundred twenty thousand armed men had fallen.
11. Gideon marched up the caravan road east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and attacked the camp while it was off-guard.
12. Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he chased after them. He captured the two Midianite kings Zebah and Zalmunna and threw the entire army into panic.
13. Then Gideon, Joash’s son, returned from the battle by the Heres Pass.
14. He captured a young man from the people of Succoth and interrogated him. He listed for Gideon the seventy-seven officials and elders of Succoth.
15. So Gideon went to the people of Succoth and said, "Here are Zebah and Zalmunna! You made fun of me because of them by saying, ‘Haven’t you already almost gotten your hands on Zebah and Zalmunna? Why should we give food to your exhausted men now?’"
16. Then he seized the city’s elders, and he beat the people of Succoth with desert thorns and briars.
17. He also broke down Penuel’s tower, and killed the city’s people.
18. Then he asked Zebah and Zalmunna, "What kind of men were those whom you killed at Tabor?"They replied, "They were just like you; each one looked like a king’s son."
19. "They were my brothers," Gideon said, "my own mother’s sons. As surely as the Lord lives, I promise that if you had let them live, I wouldn’t kill you!"
20. So he ordered his oldest son Jether, "Stand up and kill them." But the young man didn’t draw his sword because he was afraid, since he was still young.