Deuteronomy 3:13

the rest of Gilead From the Jabboḳ to the Yarmûḳ. This, with all Bashan, the kingdom of -Ôg, fell to the half-tribe of Manasseh, and is further defined as all the region of Argob(see Deuteronomy 3:4). R.V. following the Heb. punctuation adds even all Bashan, but as Rev. Marg. suggests, this phrase is part of the next note: all that Bashan is called a land of Repha-îm. In Numbers 32:1-32; Numbers 32:34-38 (a section with obvious marks of P but containing earlier elements) only R e "uben and Gad are assigned land E. of Jordan. Moses" allotment there to the half-tribe of Manasseh is recorded in deuteronomic passages, as here and Numbers 33:33 (editorial); while Deborah's song, Judges 5:14, takes Machir as a W. clan, but J, Numbers 33:39; Numbers 33:41, assigns the conquest of Gile-ad to Machir, son of Manasseh, and the capture of its towns to Ya"îr, son of Manasseh; Numbers 33:40, adding that Moses gave Gile-ad; to Manasseh, is regarded as a later insertion both because of the statement just cited from Deborah and because Judges 10 assigns the Ḥawwôth-Ya"îr to Ya"îr, a Gileadite in the days of the Judges. There thus appear to have been two traditions of the occupation of Gile-ad by part of Manasseh, one as early as J (Numbers 33:39; Numbers 33:41) followed by D, which dates it under Moses; and one, which records the conquering clan as settled first in W. Palestine, and thence invading Gile-ad under the Judges. This second tradition is preferred by many, e.g. Wellh. Gesch.(2) 33, and Budde, who points out that the Bnê Yoseph could not have complained to Joshua, Joshua 17:14-18, that they had only one lot if, besides this western territory which he gave them, part of them had already received from Moses land E. of Jordan. He proposes to insert Gile-adin Joshua 17:18, so as to make it the new lot granted by Joshua. But in that case some allusion to the crossing of Jordan would have been natural, nor would the occupation of Gile-ad have helped the Joseph tribe against the Canaanites of W. Palestine. Moreover, Gile-ad is said to have been the father of Abi-ezer and Shechem (JE, Joshua 17:2; P, Numbers 26:29 ff.) and therefore older in Manasseh's line than these W. septs of the tribe. So there is something to be said for the occupation of Gile-ad by Manasseh under Moses. But the whole matter is obscure. See further Hastings, D.B.iii. 230 f., HGHL, 577. Cp. the next notes.