Ezekiel 25:4
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4 therefore I am handing you over to the people of the East for a possession. They shall set their encampments among you and pitch their tents in your midst; they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.
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Judges 6:33
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33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came together, and they crossed over and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:51
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51 It shall consume the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed, leaving you neither grain, wine, and oil nor the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock, until it has made you perish.(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:33
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33 A people whom you do not know shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; you shall be continually abused and crushed(A)
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Isaiah 1:7
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7 Your country lies desolate;
your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
aliens devour your land;
it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.(A)
1 Kings 4:30
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30 so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.(A)
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Isaiah 65:22
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22 They shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat,
for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.(A)
Isaiah 41:2
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2 Who has roused a victor from the east,
summoned him to his service?
He delivers up nations to him
and tramples kings under foot;
he makes them like dust with his sword,
like driven stubble with his bow.(A)
Isaiah 32:8-9
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8 But those who are noble plan noble things,
and by noble things they stand.(A)
Complacent Women Warned of Disaster
9 Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice;
you complacent daughters, listen to my speech.(B)
2 Samuel 12:26
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The Ammonites Crushed
26 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.(A)
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Judges 8:10
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10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the east, for one hundred twenty thousand men bearing arms had fallen.
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Judges 7:12
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12 The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east lay along the valley as thick as locusts, and their camels were without number, countless as the sand on the seashore.(A)
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Judges 6:3-6
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3 For whenever the Israelites put in seed, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east would come up against them.(A) 4 They would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the land, as far as the neighborhood of Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel, nor any sheep or ox or donkey.(B) 5 For they and their livestock would come up, and they would even bring their tents, as thick as locusts; neither they nor their camels could be counted, so they wasted the land as they came in.(C) 6 Thus Israel was greatly impoverished because of Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help.(D)
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Numbers 23:7
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7 Then Balaam[a] uttered his oracle, saying,
“Balak has brought me from Aram,
the king of Moab from the eastern mountains:
‘Come, curse Jacob for me.
Come, denounce Israel!’(A)
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Leviticus 26:16
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16 I in turn will do this to you: I will bring terror on you, consumption and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. You shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.(A)
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Genesis 29:1
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Jacob Meets Rachel
29 Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.(A)
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