Gilead lay to the S. and W. of Bashan, and shared the characteristic fertility of that region: see on Numbers 21:33. 6-15. Moses understands their request as indicating a disinclination on the part of these two tribes to enter the promised land. He reminds them that their fathers suffered the penal... [ Continue Reading ]
ALLOTMENT OF TERRITORY TO THE TRIBES OF GAD AND REUBEN AND THE HALFTRIBE OF MANASSEH 1-5. The tribes of Reuben and Gad request that the land of Gilead lying on the E. side of the Jordan be assigned to them, on the ground that it is very fertile and therefore particularly well adapted to their large... [ Continue Reading ]
Moses lays this injunction on Joshua his successor, as he himself will not live to pass over Jordan: see Numbers 27:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
The half tribe of Manasseh is not said to have made any request similar to that of the Reubenites and Gadites; but, seeing that they had been specially engaged in the conquest of Gilead (Numbers 32:30), a place was assigned to them also in that district: cp. Deuteronomy 3:13. 34-42. These vv. are in... [ Continue Reading ]