‘Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen eleph men, all that were left of the host of the children of the east, for there fell a hundred and twenty eleph men that drew sword.'

Here the term ‘children of the east' includes the whole armies of Midian, Amalek and the children of the east. It is a term that can be applied generally to a type of semi-nomad (see Genesis 29:1; Job 1:3). Only fifteen units remained of the one hundred and thirty five units of armed men with which they had set out. Karkor is possibly Qarqar in the Wadi Sirhan.

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