The Midianitish faction was annihilated, its leaders put to death, and the Midianites themselves attacked and despoiled.

Among the slain was the seer of Pethor, Balaam the son of Beor.
The Moabites must have hailed the Israelites as saviours.

They had delivered them from their two assailants, the Amorites on the north, the Midianites on the east.

But the Midianite power was broken only for a time.

We hear at a subsequent date of the Edomite king Hadad "who smote Midian in the field of Moab," and a time came when Midianite shekhs overran Gilead, and penetrated into the valleys and villages of Manasseh on the western side of the Jordan.