of the East] Aram, or Syria: of which name there were divers Countries, but this is that which was called Aram Naharim, or according to the Greekes, Mesopotamia. Joseph. Antiq. lib. 4. cap. 6. Both which words note the situation of it betwixt two rivers, and the rivers are Tigris and Euphrates. This Aram is in situation East-ward from the land of Moab. See Deuteronomy 23:4. & Isaiah 2:6.