The Tribe of Gad is a tribe formed by the descendants of Gad, the seventh of Jacob's sons. [See Twelve Tribes of Israel] ### Moses' Blessing
Genesis 49:19“Asher’s food will be rich. He will produce royal dainties.
출애굽 당시 진을 칠 때 회막 남쪽에 거했다.
Numbers 2:10His division, and those who were counted of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.Numbers 2:11“Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon. The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.Numbers 2:12His division, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.Numbers 2:13“The tribe of Gad: the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.Numbers 2:14His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
행진을 할 때에는 성막뒤에서 따라갔다.
Numbers 10:11The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.Numbers 10:12They first went forward according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.Numbers 10:13First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.Numbers 10:14Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar.Numbers 10:15Eliab the son of Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun.Numbers 10:16The tabernacle) was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.Numbers 10:17The standard of the camp of Reuben) went forward according to their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.Numbers 10:18Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon.Numbers 10:19Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad.Numbers 10:20The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.Numbers 10:21The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim) set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.
요단강을 건너기 전에, 요단강 동편 땅을 미리 분배 받았다. 그 조건으로 강을 건너가 다른 이스라엘 동족과 함께 가나안 전쟁에 참가하겠다는 약속을 했다.
Numbers 32:28Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle before Yahweh, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;Numbers 32:29but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”Numbers 32:30The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, “As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.Numbers 32:31We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”Numbers 32:32Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan; the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.
정복 전쟁이 끝난 뒤 여호수아(눈의 아들)는 이들을 축복하며 돌려보냈다.
Joshua 22:1and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.Joshua 22:2You have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have performed the duty of the commandment of Yahweh your God.Joshua 22:3Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them. Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.Joshua 22:4Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”Joshua 22:5So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.Joshua 22:6Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but Joshua gave to the other half among their brothers beyond the Jordan westward. Moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,
디글랏 빌레셀에게 사로잡혀 앗수르로 끌려갔으며, 암몬 족속이 그 땅을 차지했다.
Jeremiah 49:1Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it will become a desolate heap, and her daughters will be burned with fire: then Israel will possess those who possessed him,” says Yahweh.