Karkor

Karkor (meaning foundation or they rested) was a place in the open desert wastes east of the Jordan where Zebah and Zalmunna, the two kings of Midian, had encamped with the remnant of their army after the main Midianite force had been routed by Gideon. Judges 8:10 records that fifteen thousand men remained of the vast host, the rest having fallen in battle.

Gideon pursued them all the way to Karkor with his three hundred men, launched a surprise attack from the direction of the nomads' route east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and routed the entire army, capturing the two kings. The location of Karkor is uncertain but was evidently deep in the Transjordanian desert, far enough from Israelite territory that the Midianites considered themselves safe from pursuit. Gideon's relentless chase to Karkor—refusing food and rest even when the men of Succoth and Penuel refused to provision him—became legendary as one of the most dramatic military pursuits in the period of the Judges.