17:1 The tribe of Manasseh, Joseph’s firstborn son, was also allotted land. 2 The descendants of Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn and the father of Gilead, received land, for they were warriors. 3 They were assigned Gilead and Bashan. 4
12:2 King Sihon of the Amorites who lived 7 in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) – including the city in the middle of the valley 8 and half of Gilead – all the way to the Jabbok Valley bordering Ammonite territory.
22:13 The Israelites sent Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
22:32 Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, and the leaders left the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead and reported back to the Israelites in the land of Canaan. 9
1 tn Heb “and the allotted portions of Manasseh fell out ten.”
2 tn Heb “and the lot belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph.”
3 tn Heb “to Makir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, for he was a man of war.”
4 tn Heb “Gilead and Bashan belonged to him.”
3 tn Heb “and half of the land of the sons of Ammon.”
4 tn Heb “in front of.”
4 tn Or perhaps, “reigned.”
5 tc The MT reads here, “and the middle of the valley,” but the reading “the city in the middle of valley” can be reconstructed on the basis of Josh 13:9, 16.
5 tn Heb “and Phinehas…returned from the sons of Reuben and from the sons of Gad, from the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the sons of Israel. And they brought back to them a word.”
6 tn Heb “returned and went from the sons of Israel, from Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession.”