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, and came to the land of the children of the east.
And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them.
Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they crossed over, and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.
The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand which is on the seashore.
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.
His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.