Topic
GAD
1. Jacob's seventh son GEN 30:11; 35:26; EXO 1:4
Passages on this topic · 102
- Genesis 30:11
Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.
- Genesis 35:26
The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
- Genesis 46:16
The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
- Genesis 49:19
“A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.
- Exodus 1:4
Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
- Numbers 1:14
Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
- Numbers 1:24
Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
- Numbers 1:25
those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
- Numbers 2:10
“On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
- Numbers 2:14
“The tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
- Numbers 2:16
“All who were counted of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out second.
- Numbers 26:15
The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;
- Numbers 26:16
of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
- Numbers 26:17
of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
- Numbers 26:18
These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were counted of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
- Numbers 32:1
Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;
- Numbers 32:2
the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,
- Numbers 32:3
“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
- Numbers 32:4
the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”
- Numbers 32:5
They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.”
- Numbers 32:16
They came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones;
- Numbers 32:17
but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
- Numbers 32:18
We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have each inherited their inheritance.
- Numbers 32:19
For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.”
- Numbers 32:20
Moses said to them, “If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,
- Numbers 32:21
and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,
- Numbers 32:22
and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before Yahweh.
- Numbers 32:23
“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.
- Numbers 32:24
Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.”
- Numbers 32:25
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.
- Numbers 32:26
Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;
- Numbers 32:27
but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says.”
- Numbers 32:28
So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the tribes of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 32:29
Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before Yahweh, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;
- Numbers 32:30
but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”
- Numbers 32:31
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, “As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.
- Numbers 32:32
We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”
- Deuteronomy 3:12
This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead, and its cities, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites:
- Deuteronomy 3:16
To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
- Deuteronomy 3:17
the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
- Deuteronomy 29:8
We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
- Deuteronomy 33:20
About Gad he said, “He who enlarges Gad is blessed. He dwells as a lioness, and tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.
- Joshua 4:12
The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, crossed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them.
- Joshua 4:13
About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.
- Joshua 13:24
Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according to their families.
- Joshua 13:25
Their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is near Rabbah;
- Joshua 13:26
and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;
- Joshua 13:27
and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan’s bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
- Joshua 13:28
This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and its villages.
- Joshua 22:1
Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,
- Joshua 22:2
and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.
- Joshua 22:3
You have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have performed the duty of the commandment of Yahweh your God.
- Joshua 22:4
Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them. Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.
- Joshua 22:5
Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
- Joshua 22:6
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.
- Joshua 22:7
Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but to the other half gave Joshua among their brothers beyond the Jordan westward. Moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,
- Joshua 22:8
and spoke to them, saying, “Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with brass, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the plunder of your enemies with your brothers.”
- Joshua 22:10
When they came to the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look at.
- Joshua 22:11
The children of Israel heard this, “Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the border of the land of Canaan, in the region around the Jordan, on the side that belongs to the children of Israel.”
- Joshua 22:12
When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.
- Joshua 22:13
The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest.
- Joshua 22:14
With him were ten princes, one prince of a fathers’ house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were each head of their fathers’ houses among the thousands of Israel.
- 1 Samuel 22:5
The prophet Gad said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah.” Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.
- 2 Samuel 24:11
When David rose up in the morning, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
- 2 Samuel 24:12
“Go and speak to David, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
- 2 Samuel 24:13
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
- 2 Samuel 24:14
David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”
- 2 Samuel 24:18
Gad came that day to David, and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
- 2 Samuel 24:19
David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.
- 2 Kings 10:32
In those days Yahweh began to cut away parts of Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Israel;
- 2 Kings 10:33
from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
- 1 Chronicles 5:10
In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 5:11
The sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah:
- 1 Chronicles 5:12
Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
- 1 Chronicles 5:13
Their brothers of their fathers’ houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven.
- 1 Chronicles 5:14
These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;
- 1 Chronicles 5:15
Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers’ houses.
- 1 Chronicles 5:16
They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders.
- 1 Chronicles 5:17
All these were listed by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 5:26
So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.
- 1 Chronicles 12:8
Some Gadites joined David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains:
- 1 Chronicles 12:9
Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
- 1 Chronicles 12:10
Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
- 1 Chronicles 12:11
Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
- 1 Chronicles 12:12
Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
- 1 Chronicles 12:13
Jeremiah the tenth, and Machbannai the eleventh.
- 1 Chronicles 12:14
These of the sons of Gad were captains of the army: he who was least was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to one thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 12:15
These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all who lived in the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west.
- 1 Chronicles 12:37
On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all kinds of instruments of war for the battle, one hundred twenty thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 12:38
All these were men of war, who could order the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
- 1 Chronicles 21:9
Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
- 1 Chronicles 21:10
“Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
- 1 Chronicles 21:11
So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:
- 1 Chronicles 21:12
either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”
- 1 Chronicles 21:13
David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
- 1 Chronicles 21:18
Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 1 Chronicles 21:19
David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.
- 1 Chronicles 29:29
Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,
- 2 Chronicles 29:25
He set the Levites in Yahweh’s house with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from Yahweh by his prophets.
- Jeremiah 49:1
Of the children of Ammon. Yahweh says: “Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? Why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in its cities?
- Ezekiel 48:27
By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one portion.
- Ezekiel 48:29
This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).