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Gideon sent messengers throughout the highlands of Ephraim to say, 'Come down to meet Midian, seize the water-points ahead of them as far as Beth-Barah and the Jordan.' All the men of Ephraim mustered and seized the water-points as far as Beth-Barah and the Jordan. (Judges 7, 24)
Gideon reached the Jordan and crossed it, but he and his three hundred companions were exhausted with the pursuit. (Judges 8, 4)
'Very well,' retorted Gideon, 'when Yahweh has put Zebah and Zalmunna into my power, I shall tear your flesh off with desert-thorn and thistles.' (Judges 8, 7)
Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about fifteen thousand men, all that was left of the entire army of the sons of the East. Of men bearing arms, a hundred and twenty thousand had fallen. (Judges 8, 10)
Gideon approached them by the tent-dwellers' route, east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and attacked the army when it thought itself in safety. (Judges 8, 11)
Zebah and Zalmunna fled. He pursued them; he took the two kings of Midian prisoner -- Zebah and Zalmunna -- and the whole army he routed in panic. (Judges 8, 12)
Gideon son of Joash then went to the people of Succoth and said, 'Here you see Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me and said, "Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your grasp, that we should give bread to your exhausted troops?" ' (Judges 8, 15)
To Jether his eldest son he said, 'Stand up and kill them!' But the boy did not draw his sword; he dared not; he was still only a lad. (Judges 8, 20)
But Gideon replied, 'I will not rule you, neither will my son. Yahweh shall rule you.' (Judges 8, 23)
Gideon went on, however, 'Let me make you one request. Each of you give me one ring out of his booty' -- for the vanquished had had gold rings, being Ishmaelites. (Judges 8, 24)
'We shall give them gladly,' they replied. So he spread out his cloak, and on it each of them threw a ring from his booty. (Judges 8, 25)
From this Gideon made an ephod and set it up in his town, in Ophrah. All Israel, following his example, prostituted themselves to it, and it was a snare for Gideon and his family. (Judges 8, 27)
