Gad
Region in the Bible
Located in: Northern Kingdom of Israel
Location: 32.05° N, 35.75° E (approximate; the location is disputed or uncertain)
Places here: Heshbon, Jazer, Succoth, Aroer, Mizpah, Lo-debar, Beth-nimrah, Zaphon, Beth-haram, Betonim
Mentioned in 21 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.
Where Gad is mentioned
1 Chronicles 5:11–12
11 The descendants of Gad lived next to the Reubenites in the land of Bashan, as far as Salecah:
12 Joel was the chief, Shapham the second, then Jaanai and Shaphat, who lived in Bashan.
Read in context2 Kings 10:32–33
32 In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory
33 from the Jordan eastward through all the land of Gilead (the region of Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh), and from Aroer by the Arnon Valley through Gilead to Bashan.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 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.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 3:15–16
15 To Machir I gave Gilead,
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.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 29:8
We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Read in contextEzekiel 48:27–28
27 And Gad will have one portion bordering the territory of Zebulun from east to west.
28 The southern border of Gad will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, then along the Brook of Egypt and out to the Great Sea.
Read in contextEzekiel 48:34
And on the west side, which will be 4,500 cubits long, there will be three gates: the gate of Gad, the gate of Asher, and the gate of Naphtali.
Read in contextJeremiah 49:1
Concerning the Ammonites, this is what the LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Is he without heir? Why then has Milcom taken possession of Gad? Why have his people settled in their cities?
Read in contextJoshua 1:12–13
12 But to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said,
13 “Remember what Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you when he said, ‘The LORD your God will give you rest, and He will give you this land.’
Read in contextJoshua 12:6
Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the Israelites had struck them down and given their land as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
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