Genesis 31:48
And Laban said, These stones are a witness between you and me today. For this reason its name was Galeed,
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47And the name Laban gave it was Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob gave it the name of Galeed.
Cross References
Genesis 31:23And taking the men of his family with him, he went after him for seven days and overtook him in the hill-country of Gilead.
Deuteronomy 3:16And the land from Gilead to the valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a limit, as far as the river Jabbok which is the limit of the country of the children of Ammon, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites;
Joshua 22:27But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord.
Joshua 22:34And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad gave to that altar the name of Ed. For, they said, It is a witness between us that the Lord is God.
Judges 10:3And after him came Jair the Gileadite, who was judge over Israel for twenty-two years.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:44-55
Jacob's Covenant with Laban. ( b. c. 1739.) 43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born? 44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. 45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46 And Jacob said unto his… Read the whole commentary →