And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.

Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;

And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.