Joshua 17:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And this was the part marked out for the tribe of Manasseh, because he was the oldest son of Joseph. As for Machir, the oldest son of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war he had Gilead and Bashan.

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  • Gen 41:51 : 51 And to the first he gave the name Manasseh, for he said, God has taken away from me all memory of my hard life and of my father's house.
  • Num 26:29 : 29 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir was the father of Gilead: of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
  • Gen 46:20 : 20 And Joseph had Manasseh and Ephraim in the land of Egypt, by Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On.
  • Gen 50:23 : 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees.
  • Gen 48:18 : 18 And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the older; put your right hand on his head.
  • Num 32:39-40 : 39 And the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and took it, driving out the Amorites who were living there. 40 And Moses gave Gilead to Machir, the son of Manasseh; and he made it his living-place.
  • Deut 3:13-15 : 13 The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, all the land of Argob, together with Bashan, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (This land is named the land of the Rephaim. 14 Jair, the son of Manasseh, took all the land of Argob, as far as the country of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, naming it, Bashan, Havvoth-Jair after himself, as it is to this day.) 15 And Gilead I gave to Machir.
  • Deut 21:17 : 17 But he is to give his first son his birthright, and twice as great a part of his property: for he is the first-fruits of his strength and the right of the first son is his.
  • Judg 5:14 : 14 Out of Ephraim they came down into the valley; after you, Benjamin, among your tribesmen; from Machir came down the captains, and from Zebulun those in whose hand is the ruler's rod.
  • 1 Chr 2:23 : 23 And Geshur and Aram took the tent-towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and the small places round it, even sixty towns. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.
  • 1 Chr 7:14-15 : 14 The sons of Manasseh by his servant-wife, the Aramaean woman: she gave birth to Machir, the father of Gilead; 15 (And Gilead took a wife, whose name was Maacah, and his sister's name was Hammoleketh;) and the name of his brother was Zelophehad, who was the father of daughters.
  • Num 27:1 : 1 Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, came forward: their names are Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
  • Num 32:33 : 33 So Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and Og, king of Bashan, all the land with its towns and the country round them.

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  • Josh 17:2
    85%

    2 And as for the rest of the children of Manasseh, their heritage was given to them by families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, by their families.

  • Josh 17:4-8
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    80%

    4 And they came before Eleazar the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and before the chiefs, saying, The Lord gave orders to Moses to give us a heritage among our brothers: so in agreement with the orders of the Lord he gave them a heritage among their father's brothers.

    5 And ten parts were given to Manasseh, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of Jordan;

    6 Because the daughters of Manasseh had a heritage among his sons, and the land of Gilead was the property of the other sons of Manasseh.

    7 And the limit of Manasseh's land was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem; the line goes on to the right hand, to the people of En-tappuah.

    8 The land of Tappuah was the property of Manasseh; but Tappuah on the edge of Manasseh was the property of the children of Ephraim.

  • Num 26:28-29
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    78%

    28 The sons of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

    29 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir was the father of Gilead: of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

  • Josh 13:31
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    31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, towns of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, for half of the children of Machir by their families.

  • Josh 13:29
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    29 And Moses gave their heritage to the half-tribe of Manasseh by their families.

  • Josh 16:4
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    4 And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their heritage.

  • 1 Chr 7:17
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    17 And the son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir the son of Manasseh.

  • Josh 17:16-17
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    74%

    16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites living in the valley have iron war-carriages, those in Beth-shean and its towns as well as those in the valley of Jezreel.

    17 Then Joshua said to the children of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, You are a great people, and have great power: you are not to have one property only,

  • Num 32:39-40
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    39 And the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and took it, driving out the Amorites who were living there.

    40 And Moses gave Gilead to Machir, the son of Manasseh; and he made it his living-place.

  • Num 1:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

    34 The generations of the sons of Manasseh were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

    35 Thirty-two thousand, two hundred of the tribe of Manasseh were numbered.

  • 1 Chr 7:14
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    14 The sons of Manasseh by his servant-wife, the Aramaean woman: she gave birth to Machir, the father of Gilead;

  • Num 36:1
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    1 Now the heads of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came to Moses, the chiefs and the heads of families of the children of Israel being present,

  • 1 Chr 7:29
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    29 And by the limits of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, with their daughter-towns. In these the children of Joseph, the son of Israel, were living.

  • Josh 17:14
    72%

    14 Then the children of Joseph said to Joshua, Why have you given me only one part and one stretch of land for my heritage? For through the blessing given to me by the Lord up to now, I am a great people.

  • Josh 17:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 In Issachar and Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, and Ibleam and its daughter-towns, and the people of Dor and its daughter-towns, and the people of En-dor and its daughter-towns, and the people of Taanach and its daughter-towns, and the people of Megiddo and its daughter-towns, that is, the three hills.

    12 But the children of Manasseh were not able to make the people of those towns go out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.

  • Josh 14:4
    72%

    4 Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.

  • Josh 13:7
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    7 So now make division of this land for a heritage to the nine tribes, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

  • Deut 3:13-15
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    71%

    13 The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, all the land of Argob, together with Bashan, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (This land is named the land of the Rephaim.

    14 Jair, the son of Manasseh, took all the land of Argob, as far as the country of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, naming it, Bashan, Havvoth-Jair after himself, as it is to this day.)

    15 And Gilead I gave to Machir.

  • Ezek 48:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 And on the limit of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side: Manasseh, one part.

    5 And on the limit of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side: Ephraim, one part.

  • Num 2:20
    71%

    20 And by him the tribe of Manasseh with Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, as their chief.

  • Josh 22:7
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    7 Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh, Moses had given a heritage in Bashan; but to the other half, Joshua gave a heritage among their brothers on the west side of Jordan. Now when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he gave them his blessing,

  • Num 1:10
    71%

    10 Of the children of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur,

  • Josh 18:11
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    11 And the first heritage came out for the tribe of Benjamin by their families: and the limit of their heritage went between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.

  • Num 34:14
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    14 For the tribe of the children of Reuben, by their fathers' families, and the tribe of the children of Gad, by their fathers' families, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, have been given their heritage:

  • Josh 16:1
    70%

    1 And the limit of the land marked out for the children of Joseph went out from Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, in the waste land, going up from Jericho through the hill-country to Beth-el;

  • 1 Chr 6:71
    70%

    71 To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its outskirts, and Ashtaroth with its outskirts;

  • 1 Chr 5:23
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    23 And the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh were living in the land: and their numbers were increased till all the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon and Senir and the mountain Hermon was theirs.

  • 1 Chr 5:2
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    2 Though Judah became stronger than his brothers, and from him came the ruler, the birthright was Joseph's:)

  • Gen 41:51
    69%

    51 And to the first he gave the name Manasseh, for he said, God has taken away from me all memory of my hard life and of my father's house.

  • Gen 48:13-14
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    69%

    13 Then taking Ephraim with his right hand, Joseph put him at Israel's left side, and with his left hand he put Manasseh at Israel's right side, placing them near him.

    14 And Israel, stretching out his right hand, put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands on purpose, for Manasseh was the older.

  • 1 Chr 6:61
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    61 And to the rest of the sons of Kohath there were given by the Lord's decision ten towns out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.

  • Num 13:11
    69%

    11 Of the tribe of Joseph, that is of the family of Manasseh, Gaddi, the son of Susi.

  • Deut 29:8
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    8 And we took their land and gave it to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, for their heritage.

  • Josh 20:8
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    8 And on the east side of Jordan at Jericho, they made selection of Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

  • Josh 16:9
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    9 Together with the towns marked out for the children of Ephraim in the heritage of Manasseh, all the towns with their unwalled places.

  • Num 26:34
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    34 These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand, seven hundred.