Bible Verses About The Tribe Of Gad

They received help against them, so that the Hagri'im and all who were allied with them suffered defeat at their hands; because they cried out to God while they were fighting, and he did as they requested, because they put their trust in him.

From their livestock they carried off 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep and 2,000 donkeys; they also took captive 100,000 persons.

Many were slaughtered, because the war was of God, and they lived in their territory until the captivity.

From the Gadi a number of strong, brave, trained fighting men defected to David at the fortress in the desert. They could handle shield and spear, they were as fierce as lions, and they were as fast as deer on the hills:

'Ezer was the leader, 'Ovadyah was second, Eli'av third,

Mishmanah fourth, Yirmeyah fifth,

'Atai sixth, Eli'el seventh,

Yochanan eighth, Elzavad ninth,

Yirmeyah tenth, and Makhbanai eleventh.

These descendants of Gad were army commanders; the least of them was worth a hundred, and the greatest worth a thousand.

These are the men who crossed the Yarden during the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks, and drove out all those who lived in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.

Descend from your glory, and sit in thirst, daughter living in Divon; for Mo'av's destroyer advances on you; he has destroyed your strongholds.

Stand by the road and watch, inhabitant of 'Aro'er; ask the man fleeing and the woman escaping, "What is going on?"

Mo'av is disgraced, indeed, destroyed. Wail aloud! Shriek! Proclaim it by the Arnon that Mo'av has been laid waste.

Judgment has come on the Plain - on Holon, Yachtzah, Mefa'at,

Divon, N'vo, Beit-Diblatayim,

Kiryatayim, Beit-Gamul, Beit-M'on,

K'riot, Botzrah and all the cities in the land of Mo'av, far and near.