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;
and the Amalekites, and the children of the east: the former were implacable enemies of Israel, and on every occasion would join other nations in oppressing them; and the children of the east were Arabians, as Josephus b expressly affirms: