Gilead

Deuteronomy

The View from the Mountaintop

Gilead is the first territory God shows Moses in the panoramic vision — the rugged northern region stretching toward Dan, part of the sweeping inheritance Moses surveys from the mountaintop.

Joshua

The Inheritance You Have to Fight For

Gilead is cited here as part of the final accounting of Manasseh's complete inheritance — combined with the ten western portions, it shows that the daughters' successful claim actually expanded the tribe's total land holdings.

Judges

The Vow That Cost Everything

Gilead is the region whose elders are offering Jephthah permanent leadership — the very territory from which he was banished now becomes the domain he is being invited to govern.

2 Samuel

A Kingdom Divided Before It Even Starts

David finally gets his crown — but only over half the nation. Saul's old general installs a puppet king over the rest of Israel, and what starts as a "friendly competition" between soldiers turns into a brutal civil war that costs one young man everything.

2 Samuel

The Battle of the Advisors

Gilead is where Absalom's army camps in preparation for battle, the rugged trans-Jordan territory now serving as the staging ground for his pursuit of David.

2 Samuel

The Census, the Plague, and the Price of Worship

Gilead is one of the first regions Joab's census team passes through — the rugged territory east of the Jordan represents the outer edges of Israel's tribal land being systematically tallied.

1 Kings

The Kingdom That Actually Worked

Most people skim this chapter's names and numbers, but buried inside Solomon's org chart is a portrait of what happens when wisdom actually leads. A functioning government, peace on every border, and a mind so extraordinary that kings traveled across the world just to listen.

2 Kings

The Coup That Was Coming All Along

Ramoth-gilead is the military staging ground where Israel's army is posted — the place where Jehu receives his covert anointing and immediately pivots toward Jezreel.

2 Kings

The Man Who Went Too Far

Gilead is the mountainous transjordan region that falls to Hazael's forces, its loss representing one of the most significant territorial defeats in Israel's history during Jehu's reign.

1 Chronicles

Every Door Had a Name on It

Gilead's city of Jazer is where David's search for capable administrators uncovered the men he appointed under Jerijah — the region's distance from Jerusalem making qualified local leadership essential.

Amos

The Shepherd Who Spoke Thunder

Gilead is the victim territory in Damascus's indictment — its people were crushed with iron threshing sledges, an agricultural implement turned instrument of mass brutality.