Numbers 32:39
The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
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- Gen 50:23 : 23 Joseph saw the descendants of Ephraim to the third generation. He also saw the children of Makir the son of Manasseh; they were given special inheritance rights by Joseph.
- Num 26:29 : 29 The Manassehites: from Machir, the family of the Machirites(now Machir became the father of Gilead); from Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
- Josh 17:1 : 1 The tribe of Manasseh, Joseph’s firstborn son, was also allotted land. The descendants of Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn and the father of Gilead, received land, for they were warriors. They were assigned Gilead and Bashan.
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- Num 32:40-423 verses89%
40So Moses gave Gilead to Machir, son of Manasseh, and he lived there.
41Now Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their small towns and named them Havvoth Jair.
42Then Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.
- Deut 3:14-163 verses80%
14Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites and Maacathites(namely Bashan) and called it by his name, Havvoth Jair, which it retains to this very day.)
15I gave Gilead to Machir.
16To the Reubenites and Gadites I allocated the territory extending from Gilead as far as Wadi Arnon(the exact middle of the wadi was a boundary) all the way to the Wadi Jabbok, the Ammonite border.
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29The Manassehites: from Machir, the family of the Machirites(now Machir became the father of Gilead); from Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
- Josh 13:31-322 verses77%
31Half of Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities in the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were assigned to the descendants of Makir son of Manasseh, to half the descendants of Makir by their clans.
32These are the land assignments made by Moses in the rift valley plains of Moab east of the Jordan River opposite Jericho.
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23(Geshur and Aram captured the towns of Jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding towns.) All these were descendants of Makir, the father of Gilead.
- Num 32:29-302 verses75%
29Moses said to them:“If the Gadites and the Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, each one equipped for battle in the LORD’s presence, and you conquer the land, then you must allot them the territory of Gilead as their possession.
30But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must receive possessions among you in Canaan.”
- Num 32:32-332 verses74%
32We will cross armed in the LORD’s presence into the land of Canaan, and then the possession of our inheritance that we inherit will be ours on this side of the Jordan River.”
33Land Assignment So Moses gave to the Gadites, the Reubenites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the realm of King Sihon of the Amorites, and the realm of King Og of Bashan, the entire land with its cities and the territory surrounding them.
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1The tribe of Manasseh, Joseph’s firstborn son, was also allotted land. The descendants of Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn and the father of Gilead, received land, for they were warriors. They were assigned Gilead and Bashan.
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4Joseph’s descendants, Manasseh and Ephraim, were assigned their land.
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9So the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and headed home to their own land in Gilead, which they acquired by the LORD’s command through Moses.
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6Moses the LORD’s servant and the Israelites defeated them and Moses the LORD’s servant assigned their land to Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
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8Then we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
- Josh 17:5-62 verses72%
5Manasseh was allotted ten shares of land, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan east of the Jordan,
6for the daughters of Manasseh were assigned land among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the descendants of Manasseh.
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29Moses assigned land to the half-tribe of Manasseh by its clans.
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1Women and Land Inheritance Then the heads of the family groups of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir, the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families.
- Num 21:31-322 verses72%
31So the Israelites lived in the land of the Amorites.
32Moses sent spies to reconnoiter Jaazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
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11Their territory also included Gilead, Geshurite and Maacathite territory, all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah–
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17The son of Ulam:Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Manasseh.
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14Manasseh’s Descendants The sons of Manasseh:Asriel, who was born to Manasseh’s Aramean concubine. She also gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead.
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12Distribution of the Transjordanian Allotments This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.
- Judg 11:22-232 verses70%
22They took all the Amorite territory from the Arnon River on the south to the Jabbok River on the north, from the desert in the east to the Jordan in the west.
23Since the LORD God of Israel has driven out the Amorites before his people Israel, do you think you can just take it from them?
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25Their territory included Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half of Ammonite territory as far as Aroer near Rabbah.
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24Their descendants entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased.
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35The Amorites managed to remain in Har Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. Whenever the tribe of Joseph was strong militarily, the Amorites were forced to do hard labor.
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29On the border of Manasseh’s territory were Beth Shean and its surrounding towns, Taanach and its surrounding towns, Megiddo and its surrounding towns, and Dor and its surrounding towns. The descendants of Joseph, Israel’s son, lived here.
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43These cities are Bezer, in the wilderness plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassehites.
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38Nebo, Baal Meon(with a change of name), and Sibmah. They renamed the cities they built.
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8So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon
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53You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.
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47They possessed his land and that of King Og of Bashan– both of whom were Amorite kings in the Transjordan, to the east.
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12But the men of Manasseh were unable to conquer these cities; the Canaanites managed to remain in those areas.
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5So they said,“If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for our inheritance. Do not have us cross the Jordan River.”
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39Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.
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13But the Israelites did not conquer the Geshurites and Maacathites; Geshur and Maacah live among Israel to this very day.
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8Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought with you, but I handed them over to you; you conquered their land and I destroyed them from before you.