Joshua 13:11

13:11 Their territory also included ¹  Gilead, Geshurite and Maacathite territory, all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah –

Joshua 13:25

13:25 Their territory included Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half of Ammonite territory ²  as far as Aroer near ³  Rabbah.

Joshua 13:31

13:31 Half of Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities in the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were assigned to the descendants of Makir son of Manasseh, to half the descendants of Makir by their clans.

Numbers 32:1

The Petition of the Reubenites and Gadites

32:1 ⁴ Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle, ⁵ 

Numbers 32:26

32:26 Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead,

Numbers 32:29

32:29 Moses said to them: “If the Gadites and the Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, each one equipped for battle in the Lord’s presence, and you conquer the land, ⁶  then you must allot them the territory of Gilead as their possession.

Numbers 32:39-40

32:39 The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it. 32:40 So Moses gave Gilead to Machir, son of Manasseh, and he lived there. ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 3:15-16

3:15 I gave Gilead to Machir. ⁸  3:16 To the Reubenites and Gadites I allocated the territory extending from Gilead as far as Wadi Arnon (the exact middle of the wadi was a boundary) all the way to the Wadi Jabbok, the Ammonite border.

Psalms 60:7

60:7 Gilead belongs to me,

as does Manasseh! ⁹ 

Ephraim is my helmet, ¹⁰ 

Judah my royal scepter. ¹¹ 

[13:11]  ¹ tn The words “their territory also included” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[13:25]  ² tn Heb “and half of the land of the sons of Ammon.”

[13:25]  ³ tn Heb “in front of.”

[32:1]  ⁴ sn While the tribes are on the other side of Jordan, the matter of which tribes would settle there has to be discussed. This chapter begins the settlement of Israel into the tribal territories, something to be continued in Joshua. The chapter has the petitions (vv. 1-5), the response by Moses (vv. 6-15), the proposal (vv. 16-27), and the conclusion of the matter (vv. 28-42). For literature on this subject, both critical and conservative, see S. E. Loewenstein, “The Relation of the Settlement of Gad and Reuben in Numbers 32:1-38, Its Background and Its Composition,” Tarbiz 42 (1972): 12-26; J. Mauchline, “Gilead and Gilgal, Some Reflections on the Israelite Occupation of Palestine,” VT 6 (1956): 19-33; and A. Bergmann, “The Israelite Tribe of Half-Manasseh,” JPOS 16 (1936): 224-54.

[32:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “the place was a place of/for cattle.”

[32:29]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the land is subdued before you.”

[32:40]  ⁷ tn Heb “in it.”

[3:15]  ⁸ sn Machir was the name of another descendant of Manasseh (cf. Num 32:41; 1 Chr 7:14-19). Eastern Manasseh was thus divided between the Jairites and the Machirites.

[60:7]  ⁹ sn Gilead was located east of the Jordan. Half of the tribe of Manasseh lived east of the Jordan in the region of Bashan.

[60:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the protection of my head.”

[60:7]  ¹¹ sn Judah, like Ephraim, was the other major tribe west of the Jordan. The Davidic king, symbolized here by the royal scepter, came from this tribe.