person
Zalmunna
צַלְמֻנָּע
Zalmunna was a Midianite king who was defeated and killed by Gideon during the time of the judges.
- verses
- 9
- first named
- Judges 8:5
- last named
- Psalms 83:11
- period
- before Israel's Monarchy
- tribe
- Sinai
Description
Who was Zalmunna?
Zalmunna was one of the two Midianite kings, along with Zebah, who oppressed Israel during the time of the judges. The Midianites, in alliance with the Amalekites and other eastern peoples, regularly raided Israel and destroyed their crops. God raised up Gideon to deliver Israel from the Midianites. After a decisive battle, Gideon pursued the fleeing Midianite army and captured Zalmunna and Zebah. Gideon questioned them about the men they had killed at Tabor, and upon learning that they were his brothers, he executed Zalmunna and Zebah. The defeat of these Midianite kings brought about a period of peace for Israel. The psalmist later refers to Zalmunna and Zebah as examples of God's enemies who were defeated and destroyed.
Relations
Direct connections
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Stands in the same events as
- Zebah12 events
- Gideon6 events
- Men Killed At Tabor2 events
- LORD1 event
- Killing1 event
- Enemies1 event
- Tabor Mount1 event
- Oreb1 event
- Jether1 event
- Karkor1 event
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Zalmunna is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
9 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in Judges (8) and Psalms (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 9, across 2 books. The name is written 12 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
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Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources