Bible Cross References
And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
Deuteronomy 3:13-15
13
To half the tribe of Manasseh I assigned the rest of Gilead and also all of Bashan, where Og had ruled, that is, the entire Argob region." (Bashan was known as the land of the Rephaim.
14
Jair, from the tribe of Manasseh, took the entire region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of Geshur and Maacah. He named the villages after himself, and they are still known as the villages of Jair.)
15
"I assigned Gilead to the clan of Machir of the tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 13:29-31
29
Moses had given a part of the land to the families of half the tribe of Manasseh as their possession.
30
Their territory extended to Mahanaim and included all of Bashan---the whole kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, as well as all sixty of the villages of Jair in Bashan.
31
It included half of Gilead, as well as Ashtaroth and Edrei, the capital cities of Og's kingdom in Bashan. All this was given to half the families descended from Machir son of Manasseh.
Joshua 17:1
A part of the land west of the Jordan was assigned to some of the families descended from Joseph's older son Manasseh. Machir, the father of Gilead, was Manasseh's oldest son and a military hero, so Gilead and Bashan, east of the Jordan, were assigned to him.