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Exact Match

Salma fathered Bethlehem,
and Hareph fathered Beth-gader.

Non-Exact Match

He said about Gad:

The one who enlarges Gad’s territory
will be blessed.
He lies down like a lion
and tears off an arm or even a head.

Verse ConceptsEnlargementLike Creatures

Then the Lord instructed Gad, David’s seer,

Verse ConceptsSeers

So Gad went to David and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Take your choice:

David answered Gad, “I’m in anguish. Please, let me fall into the Lord’s hands because His mercies are very great, but don’t let me fall into human hands.”

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfRegretMiseryempathy

So the angel of the Lord ordered Gad to tell David to go and set up an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Verse ConceptsAltars To The LordBuilding Altars

David went up at Gad’s command spoken in the name of the Lord.

As for the events of King David’s reign, from beginning to end, note that they are written in the Events of Samuel the Seer, the Events of Nathan the Prophet, and the Events of Gad the Seer,

Verse ConceptsBooks, Not PreservedSeersWritingaccomplishments

Eliasaph son of Deuel from Gad;

The descendants of Gad: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

those registered for the tribe of Gad numbered 45,650.

Verse ConceptsForty Thousand And Up

The tribe of Gad will be next. The leader of the Gadites is Eliasaph son of Deuel.

and Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the tribe of Gad.

Geuel son of Machi from the tribe of Gad.

Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals, harps, and lyres according to the command of David, Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet. For the command was from the Lord through His prophets.

Verse ConceptsHarpsLyreMusical Instruments, types ofSeers

Gad’s descendants by their clans:
the Zephonite clan from Zephon;
the Haggite clan from Haggi;
the Shunite clan from Shuni;

They departed from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.

They departed from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.

And these tribes will stand on Mount Ebal to deliver the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

12,000 sealed from the tribe of Judah,
12,000 from the tribe of Reuben,
12,000 from the tribe of Gad,

Verse ConceptsTwelve Tribes144,000

from Mount Halak, which ascends to Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and struck them down, putting them to death.

Verse ConceptsKilling Kings

Joshua and the Israelites struck down the following kings of the land beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which ascends toward Seir (Joshua gave their land as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel according to their allotments:

Verse ConceptsConquestBeyond JordanGentile Rulers

the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon east from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath

Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal-gad,

But the Levites among you do not get a portion, because their inheritance is the priesthood of the Lord. Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have taken their inheritance beyond the Jordan to the east, which Moses the Lord’s servant gave them.”

Verse ConceptsHeirsPriesthood, In OtBeyond JordanNo Earthly InheritancePriestly InheritanceReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

Across the Jordan east of Jericho, they selected Bezer on the wilderness plateau from Reuben’s tribe, Ramoth in Gilead from Gad’s tribe, and Golan in Bashan from Manasseh’s tribe.

Verse ConceptsBeyond Jordan

Merari’s descendants received 12 cities for their clans from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

Verse ConceptsTwelve Things

From the tribe of Gad they gave:

Ramoth in Gilead, the city of refuge for the one who commits manslaughter, with its pasturelands, Mahanaim with its pasturelands,

For the Lord has made the Jordan a border between us and you descendants of Reuben and Gad. You have no share in the Lord!’ So your descendants may cause our descendants to stop fearing the Lord.

Verse ConceptsBoundaries

When Phinehas the priest and the community leaders, the heads of Israel’s clans who were with him, heard what the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had to say, they were pleased.

Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest said to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, “Today we know that the Lord is among us, because you have not committed this treachery against Him. As a result, you have delivered the Israelites from the Lord’s power.”

Verse ConceptsRankGod Is Among You

About the Ammonites, this is what the Lord says:

Does Israel have no sons?
Is he without an heir?
Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad
and his people settled in their cities?

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsHeirsInheritance, MaterialTaking Possession

Some Hebrews even crossed the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead.

Saul, however, was still at Gilgal, and all his troops were gripped with fear.

Verse ConceptsFear Of Enemies

Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Leave and return to the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

Verse ConceptsForestsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Next to the territory of Zebulun, from the east side to the west, will be Gad—one portion.

Verse ConceptsEast And West

Next to the territory of Gad toward the south side, the border will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the Brook of Egypt, and out to the Mediterranean Sea.

Verse ConceptsMediterranean SeaSouthern Border

On the west side, which is 1½ miles, there will be three gates: one, the gate of Gad; one, the gate of Asher; and one, the gate of Naphtali.

Verse ConceptsCity GatesWest SidesMeasuring Jerusalem And The LandThree Parts Of Constructions

They crossed the Jordan and camped in Aroer, south of the town in the middle of the valley, and then proceeded toward Gad and Jazer.

When David got up in the morning, a revelation from the Lord had come to the prophet Gad, David’s seer:

Verse ConceptsSeersWord Of GodNamed Prophets Of The Lord

So Gad went to David, told him the choices, and asked him, “Do you want three years of famine to come on your land, to flee from your foes three months while they pursue you, or to have a plague in your land three days? Now, think it over and decide what answer I should take back to the One who sent me.”

Verse ConceptsFugitivesThree DaysTwo To Four MonthsThree YearsFamine ComingFamine Will ComeGod Will Cause Defeat

David answered Gad, “I have great anxiety. Please, let us fall into the Lord’s hands because His mercies are great, but don’t let me fall into human hands.”

Verse ConceptsMercifulnessRegretDanger From MenMercyMaking DecisionsDecision Making

Gad came to David that day and said to him, “Go up and set up an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

Verse ConceptsCommemorationAltars To The LordBuilding Altars

David went up in obedience to Gad’s command, just as the Lord had commanded.

Dan, Joseph, Benjamin,
Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

The sons of Gad lived next to them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah:

The sons of Reuben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 warriors who could serve in the army—men who carried shield and sword, drew the bow, and were trained for war.

Verse ConceptsMilitaryShieldsSkillArchers, In ArmiesForty Thousand And Up

The Merarites were assigned by lot 12 towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun according to their families.

Verse ConceptsThe Number Twelve

From the tribe of Gad they received Ramoth in Gilead and its pasturelands, Mahanaim and its pasturelands,

Gad will be attacked by raiders,
but he will attack their heels.

Verse ConceptsNations Attacking IsraelOvercoming

Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.

Then Leah said, “What good fortune!” and she named him Gad.

Verse ConceptsPeople With Apt Names

The sons of Leah’s slave Zilpah
were Gad and Asher.


These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

Gad’s sons: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

Verse ConceptsTribes Of Israel