Genesis 49:19

Jacob Blesses His Twelve Sons

¹⁸ “For Your salvation I wait, O Lord.
¹⁹ “As for Gad, raiders shall raid him,
But he will raid at their heels.
²⁰ “As for Asher, his food shall be rich,
And he will yield royal dainties.

Men of War

Gad

Genesis 30:11

Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad.

Genesis 46:16

The sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli.

Numbers 32:1-42

Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had an exceedingly large number of livestock. So when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that it was indeed a place suitable for livestock,

Deuteronomy 33:20-21

Of Gad he said,
“Blessed is the one who enlarges Gad;
He lies down as a lion,
And tears the arm, also the crown of the head.

Joshua 13:8

With the other half-tribe, the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance which Moses gave them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the servant of the Lord gave to them;

Judges 10:1-11

Now after Abimelech died, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

1 Chronicles 3:18-22

and Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah.

1 Chronicles 5:11-22

Now the sons of Gad lived opposite them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah.

1 Chronicles 5:26

So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, even the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away into exile, namely the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara and to the river of Gozan, to this day.