Judges 6:3
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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)
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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 6:33
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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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Judges 3:13
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13 In alliance with the Ammonites and the Amalekites, he went and defeated Israel, and they took possession of the city of palms.(A)
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Job 1:3
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3 He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.(A)
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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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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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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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Isaiah 65:21-22
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21 They shall build houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.(A)
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.(B)
Micah 6:15
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15 You shall sow but not reap;
you shall tread olives but not anoint yourselves with oil;
you shall tread grapes but not drink wine.(A)
Job 31:8
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8 then let me sow and another eat,
and let what grows for me be rooted out.(A)
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 28:30-33
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30 You shall become engaged to a woman, but another man shall lie with her. You shall build a house but not live in it. You shall plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.(A) 31 Your ox shall be butchered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it. Your donkey shall be stolen in front of you and shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies without anyone to help you. 32 Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people while you look on; you will strain your eyes looking for them all day but be powerless to do anything.(B) 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(C)
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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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