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Place

East

Named in 6 verses across 2 books, first in Judges 6:3.

In the Bible

All 6 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Judges

  • Judges 6:3

    Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,

  • Judges 6:33

    Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east gathered together, crossed over the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.

  • Judges 7:12

    Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.

  • Judges 8:10

    Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army of about fifteen thousand men—all that were left of the armies of the people of the east. A hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had already fallen.

Ezekiel

  • Ezekiel 25:4

    therefore I will indeed give you as a possession to the people of the East. They will set up their camps and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

  • Ezekiel 25:10

    I will give it along with the Ammonites as a possession to the people of the East, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

The Arabs as a whole, known as the Nabateans or Kedarenes, nomad tribes (Judg. 6:3, 33; 7:12; 8:10).

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