Numbers 32:40

So Moses gave Gilead unto Machir son of Manasseh, and he dwelt therein.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

39Then went the sons of Machir son of Manasseh to Gilead, and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein,

41And Jair, son of Manasseh, went, and captured their encampments,—and called them Havvoth-jair [="The encampments of Jair"].

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 3:13but the remainder of Gilead, and all Bashan the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh,—all the region of the Argob with all Bashan. The same, is called, A land of giants.

Joshua 17:1And the lot for the tribe of Manasseh was, for, he, was the firstborn of Joseph,—as for Machir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because, he, was a man of war, therefore had he Gilead and 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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