We followed Zebah and Zalmunna to Karkor where they had amassed an army of fifteen thousand men. This is all that was left of the eastern people; all the rest had fallen by the sword. We went up by the route of the nomads east of Nobah and Jogbehah and we fell upon the unsuspecting army. Zebah and Zalmunna fled the fight, but we pursued and captured them while we routed there army. With these two kings as our prisoners we went back towards the Jordan. We came again to Succoth and gathered the elders and men and said to them, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me by saying, ‘Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession?’ Why should we give bread to your exhausted men?” I took the men of Succoth and taught them a lesson by punishing them with the desert thorns and briers. I then pulled down the tower of Peniel and killed the men of the town.
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