East

Region mentioned in 18 verses of the Bible, most often in Judges.

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Where it appears

Judges (4), Matthew (3), Genesis (2), Isaiah (2), Ezekiel (2), Numbers (1), 1 Kings (1), Job (1), Jeremiah (1), Revelation (1)

Key verses

• Genesis 25:6 first mention — But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
• Numbers 23:7 — And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
• Judges 6:3 — And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
• Judges 6:33 — Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.
• Judges 7:12 — And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
• Judges 8:10 — Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
• Job 1:3 — His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
• Isaiah 2:6 — Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
• Isaiah 11:14 — But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
• Matthew 2:1 — Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
• Matthew 2:2 — Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
• Revelation 16:12 — And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

Nearby places

• Ammon 0 km
• Rabbah 0 km
• King’s Highway 0 km
• Aroer 6 km
• Jogbehah 10 km
• Jazer 10 km
• Minnith 16 km
• Elealeh 18 km

Bible Geocoding Data by OpenBible.info (https://www.openbible.info/geo/), CC BY 4.0. Map: Natural Earth (public domain). Verse text: King James Version.