Reference: Gileadites
Morish
Gil'eadites
Not used strictly for the descendants of one man. Nu 26:29 refers to the descendants of Manasseh (No. 1, above) and Jg 11:1,40; 12:7 to No. 2. We also read of Jair a Gileadite, Jg 10:3; and Barzillai, 2Sa 17:27; 19:31; 1Ki 2:7; Ezr 2:61; Ne 7:63. The Ephraimites accused the Gileadites and Jephthah with being fugitives from them, but they were severely punished for their arrogance. Jg 12:4-6. Pekah when he revolted against Pekahiah slew fifty men of the Gileadites. 2Ki 15:25.
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After Tola came Jair from Gilead. He judged (led) Israel for twenty-two years.
Jephthah was a brave soldier from Gilead. He was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was his father.
The Israelite women would go out for four days every year to grieve for the daughter of Jephthah of Gilead.
Jephthah brought all the men of Gilead together and fought the men of Ephraim and defeated them. To keep the Ephraimites from escaping, the Gileadites captured the places where the Jordan could be crossed. When any Ephraimite who was trying to escape would ask permission to cross, the men of Gilead would ask: Are you an Ephraimite? If he said: No, read more. they would tell him to say Shibboleth. But he would say Sibboleth, because he could not pronounce it correctly. Then they would kill him at the Jordan River crossing. Forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites were killed. Jephthah led Israel for six years. Then he died and was buried in his hometown in Gilead.
David went to the town of Mahanaim. Shobi son of Nahash came from Rabbah in Ammon, Machir son of Ammiel came from Lo-Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite came from Rogelim.
Barzillai, the man from Gilead, came from Rogelim with the king to the Jordan River to send him on his way.
Pekah son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him. He attacked him in the king's great house in Samaria. Fifty men of Gilead were with him. He killed the king and became king in his place.
Of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who was married to one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and took their name.
And of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who was married to one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and took their name.