...completed, Joshua constructed an altar, and offered a solemn sacrifice of thanksgiving to Jehovah. The tribes of Reuben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, preferred settling in the land east of the Jordan, but they sent a contingent of forty thousand men...

...Moses shortly before his death, at the same time that the general boundaries of the land were defined.1 The tribes of Reuben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, 1 It was also predicted with prophetic accuracy in Jacob's Blessing, GEN. xlix. were to receive for...

...cities of refuge east of the Jordan. North and south of Salt is the territory originally assigned to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh. Although miles may be traversed without passing through the habitations of men, the ruins of towns...

...S. — While these things were doing, a proposition came to Moses and the elders of the people, from the tribes of Reuben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh, that, as they had much cattle, and as the country east of the Jordan where they were, was a fine grazing...

...officers of the people to pass through the host and bid every one be ready in three days. Then he reminded the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of the promise they had made to Moses that they would leave behind them their wives, and children,...

...him. The remainder of his instructions here recorded had relation to only a section of the people. The tribes of Reuben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, had been at their own request permitted by Moses to settle on the eastern side of Jordan (Num. xxxii)....

...Divine will. * Although the promised land was situated entirely on the western side of the Jordan, the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, former and to the half of the latter that had crossed the Jordan were assigned the central districts,...

...with. (1.) The case of animals killed for food. Bear in mind that before Israel had settled in Canaan, the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh seem to have been the only tribes which had much cattle; the other tribes had very few. It is probable,...

...more stability and is capable of higher culture than a race of wandering nomads. At their own request the tribes of Reuben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh received their inheritance on the east of the Jordan, in a region pre-eminently adapted to cattle.1...

...(xxviii.-xxx.) ; Moses punishes the Midianites and makes regulations about the booty (xxxi.) ; lie allows the tribes of Reuben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh to settle in the Transjordanic region (xxxii.) ; records the stations of the desert wanderings now...