land of the Gilead,
Numbers 32:1-
42 Now
the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of
Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold,
the place [
was] a place for cattle; ... And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
Deuteronomy 3:15 And I gave Gilead unto
Machir.
Joshua 17:1 There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he [
was]
the firstborn of Joseph; [
to wit], for
Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of
Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.