Charles Ellicott Commentary Judges 8:12

"And Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and he pursued after them; and he took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host." — Judges 8:12 (ASV)

When Zebah and Zalmunna fled. —In Psalms 83:13-14, we, perhaps, find a reminiscence of the precipitancy of their flight, like a wheel, i.e., like a winged, rolling seed, and like stubble before a hurricane, and like a conflagration leaping through a mountain forest. (Dict. of Bible, s. v. Oreb; Stanley, i. 347.)

Discomfited. —Rather, as in the margin, terrified. It was the infliction of a second panic which enabled him to seize the two principal Emirs.