“Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.”
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east — The 15,000 Midianite warriors represent the residue of the vast force. The phrase 'children of the east' (בְנֵי־קֶדֶם, b'nei kedem) identifies them as alien desert nomads. Yet they remain formidable, and Gideon's pursuit requires both courage and faith.
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