...might be learned from the history of the altai* { 'ED /' as given in the 22d chapter of Joshua. After the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh had aided tile other tribes of Israel in subduing the Canaanites, they returned with the bles-* sing...

...5. p. 31.) Vv. 12—18. — On account of their numerous flocks, Moses had listened to the request of the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh, and had given them the rich pasture land of Gilead, the country of the Amoritish kings, Sihon and Og,...

...a stratagem soon made himself master of the place ; and, by taking these cities, having brought all Galilee under him, he marched over the river Jordan...formerly had been the inheritance of the tribes of Eeuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, on that side of the river. After that he took Kabbah...

...diverged from Kadesh round the Dead Sea, and occupied the whole country to the east of the Jordan, where the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, obtained their allocation of land, on condition that their warriors should assist in the conquest of...

...that their flocks were very unequally divided. According to Num. xxxti., it appears to have been only the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, which possessed any considerable quantity. The other tribes may possibly have exchanged their nomad...

....SJ-c. — for all Israel during the campaigns of Joshua; but only for the tabernacle service when the The tribes of Reuben, and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh 'returned to the -East of Jordan after Canaan ; i ;ul been conquered. They built an -altar near the...

...of iron, take in the Waters of Contention, and rest at Ginesar, a city of the kings of the Edomites, the inheritance of the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Menasheh ; and the border shall descend and encompass the Sea of Genesar on the east. [JERUSALEM. And...

...arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar." 1 1 6 See Josh. xxii., where we find that the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built a great altar by Jordan, and the whole of the rest of Israel went to make war against them, but...

...land in every direction. By the land of Gilead is meant the trans-Jordanic region, where were planted the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh. The convention seems not to have been summoned together by any superintending head, but by the consent...

...portion of the Holy Land which lay to the east of the Jordan, and which was originally possessed by the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh. It comprised the districts of Gaulonitis and Batansea, which are not mentioned in the NT ; Itursea,...