And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host — The flight of the kings triggers their capture. The verb לָכַד (lakad, took) marks the fulfillment of Gideon's vow. Yet the capture alive, rather than in battle, signals Gideon's moral descent toward execution of captives.

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