³⁸ from the tribe of Gad,

² When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!”^(A) So he named that place Mahanaim.^[a](B)

³ The king of Israel had said to his officials, “Don’t you know that Ramoth Gilead^(A) belongs to us and yet we are doing nothing to retake it from the king of Aram?”

³² Now Barzillai was very old, eighty years of age. He had provided for the king during his stay in Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy^(A) man.

Absalom’s Death

²⁴ David went to Mahanaim,^(A) and Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.

⁸ East of the Jordan (on the other side from Jericho) they designated Bezer^(A) in the wilderness on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead^(B) in the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan^(C) in the tribe of Manasseh.

⁴³ The cities were these: Bezer in the wilderness plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth^(A) in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.