Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 6:3

3 And so it was when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east , even they came up against them.

i. e. The Arabians, who are commonly called the children of the east, as Gen. 29. 1. Iudg. 8. 10, 11. Iob 1. 3. Ezek. 25. 4. Not all the Arabians, for in that were man[illegible: 1+ letters] and divers people; but in the Eastern part of Arabia.