Places of the Bible

Gilead

Region · region

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Gilead, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place. The numbers are the lines below.

1 Judgeship of Jair · 1991 BC · 1 verse
2 Joseph sold to Egypt · 1727 BC · 1 verse
3 Death of Moses · 1451 BC · 1 verse
4 War with Canaanites · 1450 BC · 2 verses
5 Dividing the land · 1444 BC · 3 verses
6 Deliverance by Barak And Deborah · 1277 BC · 1 verse
7 Oppression by Ammon and Philistia · 1169 BC · 3 verses
8 Deliverance by Jephthah · 1151 BC · 10 verses
9 Reign of Saul · 1094 BC · 1 verse
10 Reign of David · 1054 BC · 3 verses
11 Reign of Solomon · 1014 BC · 2 verses
12 Prophecies of Elijah · 909 BC · 1 verse
13 Reign of Jehu · 885 BC · 1 verse
14 Prophecies of Amos · 787 BC · 2 verses
15 Prophecies of Hosea · 784 BC · 2 verses
16 Reign of Pekahiah · 760 BC · 1 verse
17 Death of Pekahiah · 758 BC · 1 verse
18 Reign of Pekah · 758 BC · 1 verse
19 Prophecies of Micah · 753 BC · 1 verse
20 Prophecies of Jeremiah · 627 BC · 4 verses
21 Prophecies of Ezekiel · 592 BC · 1 verse
22 Prophecies of Obadiah · 584 BC · 1 verse
23 Prophecies of Zechariah · 519 BC · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Hill of testimony, (Gen. 31:21), a mountainous region east of Jordan. From its mountainous character it is called “the mount of Gilead” (Gen. 31:25). It is called also “the land of Gilead” (Num. 32:1), and sometimes simply “Gilead” (Ps. 60:7; Gen. 37:25). It comprised the possessions of the tribes of Gad and Reuben and the south part of Manasseh (Deut. 3:13; Num. 32:40). It was bounded on the north by Bashan, and on the south by Moab and Ammon (Gen. 31:21; Deut. 3:12-17). “Half Gilead” was possessed by Sihon, and the other half, separated from it by the river Jabbok, by Og, king of Bashan. The deep ravine of the river Hieromax (the modern Sheriat el-Mandhur) separated Bashan from Gilead, which was about 60 miles in length and 20 in breadth, extending from near the south end of the Lake of Gennesaret to the north end of the Dead Sea. Abarim, Pisgah, Nebo, and Peor are its mountains mentioned in Scripture.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 80 verses

Genesis: 31:21, 31:23, 31:25, 37:25
Numbers: 32:1, 32:26, 32:29, 32:39, 32:40
Deuteronomy: 2:36, 3:10, 3:12, 3:13, 3:15, 3:16, 4:43, 34:1
Joshua: 12:2, 12:5, 13:11, 13:25, 13:31, 17:1, 17:5, 17:6, 20:8, 21:38, 22:9, 22:13, 22:15, 22:32
Judges: 5:17, 10:4, 10:8, 10:17, 10:18, 11:5, 11:7, 11:8, 11:9, 11:10, 11:11, 11:29, 12:4, 12:5, 12:7, 20:1
1 Samuel: 13:7
2 Samuel: 2:9, 17:26, 24:6
1 Kings: 4:13, 4:19, 17:1
2 Kings: 10:33, 15:25, 15:29
1 Chronicles: 2:22, 5:9, 5:10, 5:16, 6:80, 26:31, 27:21
Psalms: 60:7, 108:8
Song of Solomon: 4:1, 6:5
Jeremiah: 8:22, 22:6, 46:11, 50:19
Ezekiel: 47:18
Hosea: 6:8, 12:11
Amos: 1:3, 1:13
Obadiah: 1:19
Micah: 7:14
Zechariah: 10:10

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.