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Reference: Glieadites, The
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Gli'e-adites, The,
, a branch of the tribe of Manasseh, descended from Gilead.
Gli'e-adites, The,
, a branch of the tribe of Manasseh, descended from Gilead.
The sons of Manasseh: to Machir, the families of the Machirites; and Machir begat Gilead; to Gilead, the families of the Gileadites.
And after him will rise Jair the Gileadite, and he will judge Israel twenty and two years.
And Jephthah will gather together all the men of Gilead, and he will war with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead will strike Ephraim because they said, The escaped of Ephraim, ye of Gilead, in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasseh. And Gilead will take the passages of Jordan before Ephraim: and it was that the escaped of Ephraim will say, I will pass over; and the men of Gilead will say to him, Thou an Ephrathite? and he will say, No.