[Genesis 31:21] - So he fled with all he had, and crossing the River, he headed for the hill country of Gilead.[Genesis 31:23] - Taking his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.[Genesis 31:25] - Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there too.[Genesis 37:25] - As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.[Numbers 32:1] - The Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were suitable for livestock.[Numbers 32:3] - "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Beon-[Numbers 32:5] - If we have found favor in your eyes," they said, "let this land be given to your servants as our possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan."[Numbers 32:8] - This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look over the land.[Numbers 32:9] - After they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and viewed the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land the LORD had given them.[Numbers 32:11] - 'Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old or more who came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob-[Numbers 32:19] - We will not receive any inheritance with them on the other side of the Jordan, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan."[Numbers 32:21] - and if all of you will go armed over the Jordan before the LORD until he has driven his enemies out before him-[Numbers 32:26] - Our children and wives, our flocks and herds will remain here in the cities of Gilead.[Numbers 32:29] - He said to them, "If the Gadites and Reubenites, every man armed for battle, cross over the Jordan with you before the LORD, then when the land is subdued before you, give them the land of Gilead as their possession.[Numbers 32:30] - But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must accept their possession with you in Canaan."[Numbers 32:39] - The descendants of Makir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it and drove out the Amorites who were there.[Numbers 32:40] - So Moses gave Gilead to the Makirites, the descendants of Manasseh, and they settled there.[Deuteronomy 2:36] - From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.[Deuteronomy 3:10] - We took all the towns on the plateau, and all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, towns of Og's kingdom in Bashan.[Deuteronomy 3:12] - Of the land that we took over at that time, I gave the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory north of Aroer by the Arnon Gorge, including half the hill country of Gilead, together with its towns.[Deuteronomy 3:13] - The rest of Gilead and also all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh. (The whole region of Argob in Bashan used to be known as a land of the Rephaites.[Deuteronomy 3:15] - And I gave Gilead to Makir.[Deuteronomy 3:16] - But to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory extending from Gilead down to the Arnon Gorge (the middle of the gorge being the border) and out to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites.[Deuteronomy 4:43] - The cities were these: Bezer in the desert plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.[Deuteronomy 34:1] - Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the LORD showed him the whole land-from Gilead to Dan,[Joshua 12:2] - Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge-from the middle of the gorge-to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites. This included half of Gilead.[Joshua 12:5] - He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan to the border of the people of Geshur and Maacah, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.[Joshua 13:11] - It also included Gilead, the territory of the people of Geshur and Maacah, all of Mount Hermon and all Bashan as far as Salecah-[Joshua 13:25] - The territory of Jazer, all the towns of Gilead and half the Ammonite country as far as Aroer, near Rabbah;[Joshua 13:31] - half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei (the royal cities of Og in Bashan). This was for the descendants of Makir son of Manasseh-for half of the sons of Makir, clan by clan.[Joshua 17:1] - This was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph's firstborn, that is, for Makir, Manasseh's firstborn. Makir was the ancestor of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because the Makirites were great soldiers.[Joshua 17:5] - Manasseh's share consisted of ten tracts of land besides Gilead and Bashan east of the Jordan,[Joshua 17:6] - because the daughters of the tribe of Manasseh received an inheritance among the sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the descendants of Manasseh.[Joshua 20:8] - On the east side of the Jordan of Jericho they designated Bezer in the desert on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead in the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan in the tribe of Manasseh.[Joshua 21:38] - from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead (a city of refuge for one accused of murder), Mahanaim,[Joshua 22:9] - So the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in Canaan to return to Gilead, their own land, which they had acquired in accordance with the command of the LORD through Moses.[Joshua 22:13] - So the Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead-to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh.[Joshua 22:15] - When they went to Gilead-to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh-they said to them:[Joshua 22:17] - Was not the sin of Peor enough for us? Up to this very day we have not cleansed ourselves from that sin, even though a plague fell on the community of the LORD![Joshua 22:32] - Then Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, and the leaders returned to Canaan from their meeting with the Reubenites and Gadites in Gilead and reported to the Israelites.[Judges 5:17] - Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan. And Dan, why did he linger by the ships? Asher remained on the coast and stayed in his coves.[Judges 10:4] - He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys. They controlled thirty towns in Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth Jair.[Judges 10:8] - who that year shattered and crushed them. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites on the east side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.[Judges 10:17] - When the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.[Judges 10:18] - The leaders of the people of Gilead said to each other, "Whoever will launch the attack against the Ammonites will be the head of all those living in Gilead."[Judges 11:5] - the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.[Judges 11:7] - Jephthah said to them, "Didn't you hate me and drive me from my father's house? Why do you come to me now, when you're in trouble?"[Judges 11:8] - The elders of Gilead said to him, "Nevertheless, we are turning to you now; come with us to fight the Ammonites, and you will be our head over all who live in Gilead."[Judges 11:9] - Jephthah answered, "Suppose you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the LORD gives them to me-will I really be your head?"[Judges 11:10] - The elders of Gilead replied, "The LORD is our witness; we will certainly do as you say."[Judges 11:11] - So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And he repeated all his words before the LORD in Mizpah.[Judges 11:29] - Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites.[Judges 12:4] - Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, "You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh."[Judges 12:5] - The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, "Let me cross over," the men of Gilead asked him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he replied, "No,"[Judges 12:7] - Jephthah led Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in a town in Gilead.[Judges 20:1] - Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out as one man and assembled before the LORD in Mizpah.[1 Samuel 13:7] - Some Hebrews even crossed the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul remained at Gilgal, and all the troops with him were quaking with fear.[2 Samuel 2:9] - He made him king over Gilead, Ashuri and Jezreel, and also over Ephraim, Benjamin and all Israel.[2 Samuel 17:26] - The Israelites and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.[2 Samuel 24:6] - They went to Gilead and the region of Tahtim Hodshi, and on to Dan Jaan and around toward Sidon.[1 Kings 4:13] - Ben-Geber-in Ramoth Gilead (the settlements of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead were his, as well as the district of Argob in Bashan and its sixty large walled cities with bronze gate bars);[1 Kings 4:19] - Geber son of Uri-in Gilead (the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and the country of Og king of Bashan). He was the only governor over the district.[1 Kings 17:1] - Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word."[2 Kings 10:33] - east of the Jordan in all the land of Gilead (the region of Gad, Reuben and Manasseh), from Aroer by the Arnon Gorge through Gilead to Bashan.[2 Kings 15:25] - One of his chief officers, Pekah son of Remaliah, conspired against him. Taking fifty men of Gilead with him, he assassinated Pekahiah, along with Argob and Arieh, in the citadel of the royal palace at Samaria. So Pekah killed Pekahiah and succeeded him as king.[2 Kings 15:29] - In the time of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh and Hazor. He took Gilead and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and deported the people to Assyria.[1 Chronicles 2:22] - Segub was the father of Jair, who controlled twenty-three towns in Gilead.[1 Chronicles 2:23] - (But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth Jair, as well as Kenath with its surrounding settlements-sixty towns.) All these were descendants of Makir the father of Gilead.[1 Chronicles 2:49] - She also gave birth to Shaaph the father of Madmannah and to Sheva the father of Macbenah and Gibea. Caleb's daughter was Acsah.[1 Chronicles 5:9] - To the east they occupied the land up to the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates River, because their livestock had increased in Gilead.[1 Chronicles 5:10] - During Saul's reign they waged war against the Hagrites, who were defeated at their hands; they occupied the dwellings of the Hagrites throughout the entire region east of Gilead.[1 Chronicles 5:16] - The Gadites lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its outlying villages, and on all the pasturelands of Sharon as far as they extended.[1 Chronicles 6:80] - and from the tribe of Gad they received Ramoth in Gilead, Mahanaim,[1 Chronicles 26:31] - As for the Hebronites, Jeriah was their chief according to the genealogical records of their families. In the fortieth year of David's reign a search was made in the records, and capable men among the Hebronites were found at Jazer in Gilead.[1 Chronicles 27:21] - over the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead: Iddo son of Zechariah; over Benjamin: Jaasiel son of Abner;[Jeremiah 8:22] - Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?[Jeremiah 22:6] - For this is what the LORD says about the palace of the king of Judah: "Though you are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, I will surely make you like a desert, like towns not inhabited.[Jeremiah 46:11] - "Go up to Gilead and get balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt. But you multiply remedies in vain; there is no healing for you.[Jeremiah 50:19] - But I will bring Israel back to his own pasture and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan; his appetite will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.[Ezekiel 47:18] - "On the east side the boundary will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the eastern sea and as far as Tamar. This will be the east boundary.[Hosea 6:8] - Gilead is a city of wicked men, stained with footprints of blood.[Hosea 12:11] - Is Gilead wicked? Its people are worthless! Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Their altars will be like piles of stones on a plowed field.[Amos 1:3] - This is what the LORD says: "For three sins of Damascus, even for four, I will not turn back my wrath. Because she threshed Gilead with sledges having iron teeth,[Amos 1:13] - This is what the LORD says: "For three sins of Ammon, even for four, I will not turn back {my wrath}. Because he ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to extend his borders,[Obadiah 1:19] - People from the Negev will occupy the mountains of Esau, and people from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.[Micah 7:14] - Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.[Zechariah 10:10] - I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon, and there will not be room enough for them.
