Genesis 49:19

Jacob Blesses His Twelve Sons

¹⁸ I wait for Your salvation, Lord. ¹⁹ Gad will be attacked by raiders,
but he will attack their heels. ²⁰ Asher’s food will be rich,
and he will produce royal delicacies.

Men of War

Gad

Genesis 30:11

Then Leah said, “What good fortune!” and she named him Gad.

Genesis 46:16

Gad’s sons: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

Numbers 32:1-42

The Reubenites and Gadites had a very large number of livestock. When they surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, they saw that the region was a good one for livestock.

Deuteronomy 33:20-21

He said about Gad:

The one who enlarges Gad’s territory
will be blessed.
He lies down like a lion
and tears off an arm or even a head.

Joshua 13:8

With the other half of the tribe, the Reubenites and Gadites had received the inheritance Moses gave them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the Lord’s servant had given them:

Judges 10:1-11

After Abimelech, Tola son of Puah, son of Dodo became judge and began to deliver Israel. He was from Issachar and lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

1 Chronicles 3:18-22

Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.

1 Chronicles 5:11-22

The sons of Gad lived next to them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah:

1 Chronicles 5:26

So the God of Israel put it into the mind of Pul (that is, Tiglath-pileser) king of Assyria to take the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh into exile. He took them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and Gozan’s river, where they are until today.