Reference: Benekedem
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Bene-ke'dem
(the children of the East), an appellation given to a people or to peoples dwelling to the east of Palestine. It occurs in
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Then Jacob went on his journey till he came to the land of the children of the East.
And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;
Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east, banding themselves together, went over and put up their tents in the valley of Jezreel.
Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, those of all the army of the children of the east who were still living; for a hundred and twenty thousand of their swordsmen had been put to death.
And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.