East
In the Bible, the East is often associated with invading armies and nomadic tribes.
PlaceOld Testament2 books6 verses
Summary
Location
- Identified as
- region around Rabbah 1
- Certainty
- Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)
- Coordinates
- 31.955° N, 35.934° E
Alternative names
- קֶ֫דֶםEast
Mentions
- Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
- Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east gathered together, crossed over the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.
- 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.
- 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.
- …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.
- 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.