Lexicon :: Strong's H6924 - qeḏem

The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had left him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are standing, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

Then Jacob [fn]went on his way and came to the land of the people of the East [near Haran].

Now those to camp before the tabernacle toward the east, before the Tent of Meeting, toward the sunrise, were to be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, performing the duties of the sanctuary for whatever was required of the Israelites; and the [fn]layman (non-Levite) who approached [the sanctuary] was to be put to death.

“Balak, the king of Moab, has brought me from Aram (Syria),

from the mountains of the east, [saying,]

‘Come, curse [the descendants of] Jacob for me;

And come, [violently] denounce Israel.’

‘You shall mark out your eastern boundary from Hazar-enan to Shepham;

“With the best things of the ancient mountains,

And with the precious things of the everlasting hills,

“The eternal God is your refuge and dwelling place,

And underneath are the everlasting arms;

He drove out the enemy from before you,

And said, ‘Destroy!’

Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.

Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east assembled together; and they crossed over [the Jordan] and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies, about fifteen thousand [fighting] men, all who were left of the entire army of the sons of the east; for a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had fallen.

‘Have you not heard [asks the God of Israel]?

Long ago I did it;

From ancient times I planned it.

Now I have brought it to pass,

That you [king of Assyria] should [be My instrument to] turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

“Behold, I go forward (to the east), but He is not there;

I go backward (to the west), but I cannot perceive Him;

“Oh, that I were as in the months of old,

As in the days when God watched over me,

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem.

We have heard with our ears, O God,

Our fathers have told us

The work You did in their days,

In the days of old.

God will hear and humble them,

Even He who [fn]sits enthroned from old— Selah.

Because in them there has been no change [of heart],

And they do not fear God [at all].

To Him who rides in the highest heavens, the ancient heavens,

Behold, He sends out His voice, a mighty and majestic voice.

Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,

Which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance;

Remember Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.

Yet God is my King of old,

Working salvation in the midst of the earth.