Then said he to Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom you killed at Tabor? They answered, As you are, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.
With the execution of Zebah and Zalmunna and the destruction of their army, Midian’s domination of Israel ended. Though the seven years of this oppression were not as long as some of Israel’s other periods of discipline, this appears to have been an unusually oppressive subjugation.