Numbers 32:40

And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he dwelt there.

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In The King James Version

And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.

In Context

39And a son of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and destroyed the Amorite who dwelt in it.

41And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took their villages, and called them the villages of Jair.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 3:13And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan the kingdom of Og I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, and all the country round about Argob, all that Bashan; it shall be accounted the land of Rephaim.

Joshua 17:1And the borders of the tribe of the children of Manasseh (for he was the firstborn of Joseph), assigned to Machir the firstborn of Manasseh the father of Gilead, for he was a warrior, were in the land of Gilead and of Bashan.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 32:29-42

Inheritance of the Reubenites. ( b. c. 1452.) 28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel: 29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the Lord , and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession: 30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have… Read the whole commentary →

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