This document is about Gad (place name). For other homonyms, please refer to the Gad document.
The name of the region where the census first began in the time of David.
2 Sam 24:5They crossed the Jordan, and encamped in the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad), to the right of Aroer), opposite Jazer).
David's army commanders conducted the census starting from the south of Aroer, "the city in the middle of the valley of Gad" on the east side of the Jordan River.
2 Sam 24:5They crossed the Jordan, and encamped in the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad), to the right of Aroer), opposite Jazer).