Gilead "Gilead" is strictly speaking the name of the district between the Jabbok and Moab, in which the tribes of Gad and Reuben dwelt. Here it is used less precisely to include Bashan, the district N.E. of Jordan in which the half tribe of Manasseh lived.

Iddo Spelt quite differently in Heb. from the name of the father of the prophet Zechariah (Zechariah 1:1).

Abner 1 Samuel 14:50-51.

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