Gilead

Where the Bible names it

1. Genesis 31:21

   So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

2. Genesis 31:23

   So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

3. Genesis 31:25

   Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.

4. Genesis 37:25

   And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.

5. Numbers 26:29

   These were the descendants of Manasseh: The Machirite clan from Machir, the father of Gilead, and the Gileadite clan from Gilead.

6. Numbers 32:1

   Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.

7. Numbers 32:26

   Our children, our wives, our livestock, and all our animals will remain here in the cities of Gilead.

8. Numbers 32:29

   And Moses said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, with every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession.

9. Numbers 32:39

   The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

10. Numbers 32:40

    So Moses gave Gilead to the clan of Machir son of Manasseh, and they settled there.

11. Numbers 36:1

    Now the family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, one of the clans of Joseph, approached Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families and addressed them,

12. Deuteronomy 2:36

    From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

13. Deuteronomy 3:10

    all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei in the kingdom of Og.

14. Deuteronomy 3:12

    So at that time we took possession of this land. To the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the land beyond Aroer along the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead, along with its cities.

15. Deuteronomy 3:13

    To the half-tribe of Manasseh I gave the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og. (The entire region of Argob, the whole territory of Bashan, used to be called the land of the Rephaim.)

16. Deuteronomy 3:15

    To Machir I gave Gilead,

17. Deuteronomy 3:16

    and to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.

18. Deuteronomy 4:43

    Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau belonging to the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to the Gadites, or Golan in Bashan belonging to the Manassites.

19. Deuteronomy 34:1

    Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead as far as Dan,

20. Joshua 12:2

    Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along the middle of the valley, up to the Jabbok River (the border of the Ammonites), that is, half of Gilead,

21. Joshua 12:5

    He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

22. Joshua 13:11

    also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah—

23. Joshua 13:25

    The territory of Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, near Rabbah;

24. Joshua 13:31

    half of Gilead; and Ashtaroth and Edrei, the royal cities of Og in Bashan. All this was for the clans of the descendants of Machir son of Manasseh, that is, half of the descendants of Machir.

25. Joshua 17:1

    Now this was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph’s firstborn son, namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh and father of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because Machir was a man of war.

26. Joshua 17:5

    Thus ten shares fell to Manasseh, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan beyond the Jordan,

27. Joshua 17:6

    because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among his sons. And the land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

28. Joshua 20:8

    And beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho, they designated Bezer on the wilderness plateau from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.

29. Joshua 21:38

    And from the tribe of Gad they were given Ramoth in Gilead, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Mahanaim,

30. Joshua 22:9

    So the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to their own land of Gilead, which they had acquired according to the command of the LORD through Moses.

31. Joshua 22:13

    The Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the land of Gilead, to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

32. Joshua 22:15

    They went to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead and said to them,

33. Joshua 22:32

    Then Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, together with the other leaders, returned to the Israelites in the land of Canaan and brought back a report regarding the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead.

34. Judges 5:17

    Gilead remained beyond the Jordan. Dan, why did you linger by the ships? Asher stayed at the coast and remained in his harbors.

35. Judges 10:3

    Tola was followed by Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.

36. Judges 10:4

    He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth-jair.

37. Judges 10:8

    who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and they did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.

38. Judges 10:17

    Then the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, and the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.

39. Judges 10:18

    And the rulers of Gilead said to one another, “Whoever will launch the attack against the Ammonites will be the head of all who live in Gilead.”

40. Judges 11:1

    Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.