Zalmunna

AI summary: Zalmunna matters because the cross references present him not only as a defeated enemy king but as one personally implicated in violence against Gideon's family. His capture, interrogation, and death turn the closing part of Gideon's campaign into an act of both public deliverance and private reckoning. Later poetic remembrance keeps his downfall alongside Zebah in Israel's memory of God-given victory. Taken together, the material presents Zalmunna as a significant defeated ruler whose end seals Midian's humiliation.¹

One of the two kings of Midian whom the “Lord delivered” into the hands of Gideon. He was slain afterwards with Zebah (Judg. 8:5-21). (See ZEBAH.) ³