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Zebah
Smith's Bible Dictionary
or Ze'bah. Zebah and Zalmun'na. (deprived of protection). The two "kings" of Midian who commanded the great invasion of Palestine, and who finally fell by the hand of Gideon himself. Judges 8:5-21; Psalms 83:11. (B.C. 1250). While Oreb and Zeeb, two of the inferior leaders of the incursion, had been slain, with a vast number of their people, by the Ephraimites, at the central fords of the Jordan, the two kings had succeeded in making their escape by a passage farther to the north (probably the ford near Bethshean), and thence by the Wady Yabis, through Gilead, to Kurkor, high up on the Hauran. Here, they were reposing their with 15,000 men, a mere remnant of their huge horde, when Gideon overtook them. The people fled in dismay, and Gideon captured the two kings and brought them to his native village, Ophrah, where he slew them because they had killed his brothers.
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Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Zebah'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/sbd/z/zebah.html. 1901.
