Judges 8:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

When Zebah and Zalmunna fled. — In Psalms 83:13-14, we, perhaps, find a reminiscence of the precipitancy of their flight, “like a wheel,” i.e., like a winged, rolling seed, and like stubble before a hurricane, and like a conflagration leaping through a mountain forest. (Dict. of Bible, s. v. Oreb; Stanley, i. 347.)

Discomfited. — Rather, as in the margin, terrified. It was the infliction of a second panic which enabled him to seize the two principal Emîrs.

Judges 8:12

12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfitedc all the host.