The Tribal Boundary of Gad in the Highlands of Gilead

Joshua 13:24-28 traces the tribal inheritance of Gad in the highlands of Gilead east of the Jordan: "Their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah; And from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir; And in the valley, Beth-aram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border." The catalog traces the boundary line through small frontier settlements that filled the Gileadite plateau between the Jordan and the Ammonite frontier.

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