from Manasseh the family of Machir who was the father of Gilead and the family of Gilead.

After Tola came Jair from Gilead. He judged (led) Israel for twenty-two years.

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,