Bible Location
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This East entry refers to the eastern desert peoples, especially the nomadic groups beyond Israel's settled lands. It is important because biblical writers use 'the people of the East' to describe raiding, mobile neighbours and the wider frontier world around Israel. First appears in Judg 6:3.1
Coordinates
31.95, 35.92
First appears
Judg 6:3
AI summary: The 'East' on this page is not a single city or province but a regional designation for peoples living beyond Israel's cultivated core. In Judges it describes the large eastern raiding coalitions that pressed into the land in the days of Midian, while Ezekiel uses similar language in judgment on Ammon. The term therefore evokes mobility, desert power, and the vulnerability of border regions. The cross references present the East as a frontier zone of nomadic peoples whose movements affected Israel's security and imagination.1
Latitude
31.95
Longitude
35.92
Bible references
6
The Arabs as a whole, known as the Nabateans or Kedarenes, nomad tribes (Judg. 6:3, 33; 7:12; 8:10). 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.