Thematic Bible: Gad


Thematic Bible



The sons of Leah's slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These were Jacob's sons, who were born in Paddan-aram.

Dan and Naphtali and Gad and Asher.

Leah said: How fortunate. She called him Gad. Verse ConceptsPeople With Apt Names

Gad will be attacked by a band of raiders. He will strike back at their heels. Verse ConceptsNations Attacking IsraelOvercoming

The families descended from Gad were the family of Zephon, the family of Haggi, the family of Shuni,

The Gadites lived next to them in Bashan, as far as Salecah:

The history of King David from beginning to end is recorded in the records of the three prophets, Samuel, Nathan, and Gad. Verse ConceptsBooks, Not PreservedSeersWritingaccomplishments

The king followed the instructions Jehovah gave to King David through Gad, the king's prophet, and through the prophet Nathan. He stationed Levites in the Temple, with harps and cymbals, Verse ConceptsHarpsLyreMusical Instruments, types ofSeers

Do not live in your stronghold, the prophet Gad told David. Go to the land of Judah. So David went to the forest of Hereth. Verse ConceptsForestsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

When David got up in the morning, Jehovah spoke his word to the prophet Gad, David's seer. Verse ConceptsSeersWord Of GodNamed Prophets Of The Lord

The tribes of Gad and Reuben came to Moses and said: Allow us to build stone fences for our livestock and cities for our families here. Then we will be ready to march in battle formation ahead of the other Israelites until we have brought them to their land. Meanwhile our families will live in walled cities. They will be safe from the other people who live here. We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has received his own land. read more.
We will not take possession of any land on the other side of the Jordan River, to the west and beyond. We already have our land here, east of the Jordan. Moses answered: If you really mean what you say, then here in the presence of Jehovah get ready to go into battle. All your fighting men are to cross the Jordan and under Jehovah's command they are to attack our enemies until Jehovah defeats them and takes possession of the land. You may return after that, because you will have fulfilled your obligation to Jehovah and to the other Israelites. Then Jehovah will acknowledge that this land east of the Jordan is yours. If you do not keep your promise, I warn you that you will be sinning against Jehovah. Do not doubt this, you will be punished for your sin. So build your towns and the enclosures for your sheep, but do what you have promised! The men from Reuben and Gad answered Moses: Sir, we will do just what you have said. Our wives, children, sheep and cattle will stay here in the towns in Gilead. However those of us prepared for battle will cross the Jordan and fight for Jehovah. Moses said to Eleazar, Joshua, and the family leaders: Make sure the tribes of Gad and Reuben prepare for battle and cross the Jordan River with you. If they do, then after the land is in your control, give them the region of Gilead as their tribal land. But if they break their promise, they will receive land on the other side of the Jordan, like the rest of the tribes. The tribes of Gad and Reuben replied: We are your servants and will do whatever Jehovah has commanded. We will enter Canaan as armed troops in Jehovah's presence. The land we will take possession of is here, east of the Jordan.

The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them. About forty thousand, prepared for war, passed over before Jehovah to do battle in the plains of Jericho.

Joshua called together the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh. He said: You have done everything Jehovah's servant Moses ordered you to do. You have obeyed all my commands. You have never deserted the other Israelites. You have been careful to obey the commandments of Jehovah your God. read more.
Jehovah your God has given the other Israelites peace as he promised. So go back home to the land you claimed for your own, the land on the east side of the Jordan, that Moses, Jehovah's servant, gave you. Be sure you obey the Law that Moses commanded you. Love Jehovah your God. Do his will. Obey his commandments and be faithful to him. Serve him with all your heart and with all your being (Nephesh: living being). Joshua blessed them and sent them on their way. To the one half tribe of Manasseh Moses had given possession in Bashan: but he gave the other half to Joshua among their brothers on this side Jordan westward. Joshua sent them a way to their tents and he blessed them. He said: Return with much riches to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.

The sons of Gad were Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. Verse ConceptsTribes Of Israel

The Gadites lived next to them in Bashan, as far as Salecah:

The families descended from Gad were the family of Zephon, the family of Haggi, the family of Shuni, the family of Ozni, the family of Eri, the family of Arodi, and the family of Areli. read more.
These were the families of Gad's descendants. The total number of men was forty thousand five hundred.

We took possession of this land. I gave the tribes of Reuben and Gad the land north of Aroer near the Arnon Valley and half of the mountain region of Gilead with its cities. Verse ConceptsHillsHalf Of DistrictsArnonReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had a large number of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was indeed a place suitable for livestock. They approached Moses, the priest Eleazar, and the leaders of the congregation and said: Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon, read more.
the land Jehovah won for the congregation of Israel, is a good place for livestock. Gentlemen, we have livestock. Please give us this land as our property. Do not make us cross the Jordan River.

I assigned the territory from Gilead to the Arnon River to the tribes of Reuben and Gad. The middle of the river was their southern boundary, and their northern boundary was the Jabbok River, part of which formed the Ammonite border. On the west their territory extended to the Jordan River, from Lake Galilee in the north down to the Dead Sea in the south and to the foot of (Mount) Pisgah on the east.

We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites. Verse ConceptsFractions, One HalfReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

Gad came to David and said: Go, set up an altar for Jehovah at Araunah the Jebusite's threshing floor. David obeyed Jehovah's command and went as Gad had told him to.

Jehovah's angel told Gad to command David to go and build an altar to Jehovah at Araunah's threshing place. David obeyed Jehovah's command and did what Gad told him to do.

When David got up in the morning, Jehovah spoke his word to the prophet Gad, David's seer. Go tell David: 'This is what Jehovah says: I offer you three choices. Choose the one you want me to do to you.' Gad told David the three choices as follows: Seven years of famine could come to you and your land. You could flee from your enemies as they pursue you for three months. Or there could be a three-day plague in your land? Think it over, and decide what answer I should give the one who sent me. read more.
I am in a desperate situation, David told Gad. Please let us fall into Jehovah's hands because he is very merciful. But do not let me fall into human hands.

Jehovah said to Gad, David's prophet: Tell David that I am giving him three choices. I will do whichever he chooses. Gad went to David and told him what Jehovah said. He asked: Which is it to be? read more.
Three years of famine? Three months of running away from the armies of your enemies? Or: three days in which Jehovah attacks you with his sword and sends an epidemic on your land. He will use his angel to bring death throughout Israel? What answer shall I give Jehovah? David replied to Gad: I am in a desperate situation! But I do not want to be punished by the people. Let Jehovah be the one to punish me, because he is merciful.

The sons of Leah's slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These were Jacob's sons, who were born in Paddan-aram.

Dan and Naphtali and Gad and Asher.

Leah said: How fortunate. She called him Gad. Verse ConceptsPeople With Apt Names

The Gadites lived next to them in Bashan, as far as Salecah:

Moses gave inheritance to the tribe of Gad according to their families. Their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is near Rabbah; From Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir; read more.
In the valley, Beth-aram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, to the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward. This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages.

Some brave and experienced warriors from the tribe of Gad also defected to David while he was at the stronghold in the wilderness. They were expert with both shield and spear, as fierce as lions and as swift as deer on the mountains. Ezer was their leader. Obadiah was second. Eliab was third. Mishmannah was fourth. Jeremiah was fifth. read more.
Attai was sixth. Eliel was seventh. Johanan was eighth. Elzabad was ninth. Jeremiah was tenth. Macbannai was eleventh. These warriors from Gad were army commanders. The weakest among them could take on a hundred regular troops, and the strongest could take on a thousand! They crossed the Jordan River during its seasonal flooding at the beginning of the year and drove out all the people living in the lowlands on both the east and west banks.

From the east side of the Jordan River where the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh lived there were one hundred twenty thousand troops armed with every kind of weapon. All these men came in battle array to Hebron with the single purpose of making David the king of Israel. In fact, all Israel agreed that David should be their king.

The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had a large number of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was indeed a place suitable for livestock. Verse ConceptsLivestockLargenessHerdsReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

He said: Return with much riches to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers. Verse ConceptsGoldIronLargenessSilverBrassRules About BootyWealthy People

Eliasaph, son of Deuel, from the tribe of Gad;

The roster of families and households for the descendants of Gad listed the men by name that were at least twenty years old and eligible for military duty. The total for the tribe of Gad was forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.

On the south side the armies led by Reuben will camp under their flag. The leader for the people of Reuben is Elizur, son of Shedeur Verse ConceptsFlags

The tribe of Gad will be next. Eliasaph, son of Deuel is the leader for the people of Gad.

The grand total of all the troops in Reuben's camp is one hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty. They will be the second group to move out. Verse ConceptsOne Hundred Thousand And MoreSecond ThingDeath Of Other Groups

The children of Reuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manassah built a large altar by the borders of Jordan in the land of Canaan. The children of Israel heard that the half tribe of Manasseh built an altar in the land of Canaan on the side belonging to the sons of Israel, at the Jordan when they passed by. When the people of Israel heard this, the whole community came together at Shiloh to go to war against the eastern tribes. read more.
Then the people of Israel sent Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, to the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh in the land of Gilead. Ten leading men went with Phinehas, one from each of the western tribes and each one the head of a family among the clans.

Gad will have one part of the land and border Zebulun on the south. It will extend from the eastern border to the western border. Verse ConceptsEast And West

This is the land you will divide as your inheritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their areas, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Jehovah began to reduce the size of Israel's territory. King Hazael of Syria conquered all the Israelite territory east of the Jordan, as far south as the town of Aroer on the Arnon River. This included the territories of Gilead and Bashan, where the tribes of Gad, Reuben, and East Manasseh lived.

The Gadites lived next to them in Bashan, as far as Salecah: Joel was the chief, Shapham the second, then Janai and Shaphat, in Bashan. Their relatives, by families, were: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia and Eber, seven in all. read more.
These were the sons of Abihail son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz. Ahi son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, was head of their family. The Gadites lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its outlying villages, and on all the pasturelands of Sharon as far as they extended. All these were entered in the genealogical records during the reigns of Jotham king of Judah and Jeroboam king of Israel.

The families descended from Gad were the family of Zephon, the family of Haggi, the family of Shuni, the family of Ozni, the family of Eri, the family of Arodi, and the family of Areli. read more.
These were the families of Gad's descendants. The total number of men was forty thousand five hundred.

The king followed the instructions Jehovah gave to King David through Gad, the king's prophet, and through the prophet Nathan. He stationed Levites in the Temple, with harps and cymbals, Verse ConceptsHarpsLyreMusical Instruments, types ofSeers

The history of King David from beginning to end is recorded in the records of the three prophets, Samuel, Nathan, and Gad. Verse ConceptsBooks, Not PreservedSeersWritingaccomplishments

When David got up in the morning, Jehovah spoke his word to the prophet Gad, David's seer. Verse ConceptsSeersWord Of GodNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Gad will be attacked by a band of raiders. He will strike back at their heels. Verse ConceptsNations Attacking IsraelOvercoming

Do not live in your stronghold, the prophet Gad told David. Go to the land of Judah. So David went to the forest of Hereth. Verse ConceptsForestsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

This is what Jehovah says about the people of [AMMON]: Does Israel not have any children? Does it not have any heirs? Why has the god Milcom taken over the inheritance of Gad's descendants? Why do Milcom's people live in Gad's cities? Verse ConceptsFalse GodsHeirsInheritance, MaterialTaking Possession

During Saul's reign they waged war against the Hagrites, who were defeated at their hands; they occupied the dwellings of the Hagrites throughout the entire region east of Gilead. Verse Conceptseast

So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria), who took the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. He took them to Halah, Habor, Hara and the river of Gozan, where they are to this day. Verse ConceptsExile, in assyriaExile Of Israel To Assyria

Blessed is the one who enlarges Gad. He lies down as a lion and tears the arm, also the crown of the head. Verse ConceptsEnlargementLike Creatures

These were the sons of Abihail son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz.

Gad will be attacked by a band of raiders. He will strike back at their heels. Verse ConceptsNations Attacking IsraelOvercoming

Do not live in your stronghold, the prophet Gad told David. Go to the land of Judah. So David went to the forest of Hereth. Verse ConceptsForestsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

The history of King David from beginning to end is recorded in the records of the three prophets, Samuel, Nathan, and Gad. Verse ConceptsBooks, Not PreservedSeersWritingaccomplishments

When David got up in the morning, Jehovah spoke his word to the prophet Gad, David's seer. Verse ConceptsSeersWord Of GodNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Do not live in your stronghold, the prophet Gad told David. Go to the land of Judah. So David went to the forest of Hereth. Verse ConceptsForestsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Do not live in your stronghold, the prophet Gad told David. Go to the land of Judah. So David went to the forest of Hereth. Verse ConceptsForestsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

They crossed the Jordan and camped south of Aroer, the city in the middle of the valley, in the territory of Gad. Then they went north to Jazer.