A region east of the Jordan River allotted to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh
Numbers 32:1-30; Deuteronomy 3:13; 34:1; 2 Kings 10:33
Reubenites expel the Hagarites from
1 Chronicles 5:9,10,18-22
Ammonites make war against Gilead defeated by Jephthah
Judges 11
The prophet Elijah, a native
1 Kings 17:1
David retreats to, at the time of Absalom’s rebellion
2 Samuel 17:16,22,24
Pursued into, by Absalom
2 Samuel 17:26
Absalom was defeated and slain in the forests of Gilead
2 Samuel 18:9
Hazael, king of Syria, smites the land of
2 Kings 10:32,33; Amos 1:3
Invaded by Tiglath-pileser, king of Syria
2 Kings 15:29
A grazing country
Numbers 32:1; 1 Chronicles 5:9
Exported spices, balm, and myrrh
Genesis 37:25; Jeremiah 8:22; 46:11
Figurative
Of prosperity
Jeremiah 22:6; 50:19
A mountain
Judges 7:3; Song of Solomon 4:1; 6:5
Laban overtakes Jacob at
Genesis 31:21-25
A city
Hosea 6:8; 12:11
Grandson of Manasseh
Numbers 26:29,30; 27:1; 36:1; Joshua 17:1,3; 1 Chronicles 2:21,23; 7:14,17
Father of Jephthah
Judges 11:1,2
A chief of Gad
1 Chronicles 5:14
