Then Leah said, "A troop comes!" So she called his name Gad.

The sons of Gad [were] Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that indeed the region [was] a place for livestock,

"Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Shebam, Nebo, and Beon,

Therefore they said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan."

"Now why will you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?

"For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the LORD had given them.

'Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,

"So the LORD's anger was aroused against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone.

"For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people."

"but we ourselves will be armed, ready [to go] before the children of Israel until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones will dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

"For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this eastern side of the Jordan."

"and all your armed men cross over the Jordan before the LORD until He has driven out His enemies from before Him,

"But if you do not do so, then take note, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out.

And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying: "Your servants will do as my lord commands.

"but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, just as my lord says."

And Moses said to them: "If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben cross over the Jordan with you, every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead as a possession.

Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying: "As the LORD has said to your servants, so we will do.

So Moses gave to the children of Gad, to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within the borders, the cities of the surrounding country.

Atroth and Shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah,

And the children of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kirjathaim,

And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who [were] in it.

Also Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its small towns, and called them Havoth Jair.

And of Gad he said: "Blessed [is] he who enlarges Gad; He dwells as a lion, And tears the arm and the crown of his head.

He provided the first [part] for himself, Because a lawgiver's portion was reserved there. He came [with] the heads of the people; He administered the justice of the LORD, And His judgments with Israel."

With the other half tribe the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses had given them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD had given them:

After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in the mountains of Ephraim.

After him arose Jair, a Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty-two years.

And Jair died and was buried in Camon.

So the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the people of Ammon.

Moreover the people of Ammon crossed over the Jordan to fight against Judah also, against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.

So the LORD said to the children of Israel, "[Did I] not [deliver you] from the Egyptians and from the Amorites and from the people of Ammon and from the Philistines?

[and] Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.

and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-Hesed -- five [in all.]

The son of Shechaniah was Shemaiah. The sons of Shemaiah [were] Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat -- six [in all.]

And the children of Gad dwelt next to them in the land of Bashan as far as Salcah:

and their brethren of their father's house: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jachan, Zia, and Eber -- seven [in all.]

Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, [was] chief of their father's house.

All these were registered by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

They made war with the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab.

Then they took away their livestock -- fifty thousand of their camels, two hundred and fifty thousand of their sheep, and two thousand of their donkeys -- also one hundred thousand of their men;