These were the cities and towns given to the families of the tribe of Gad as their possession.
They lived in the territory of Bashan and Gilead, in the towns there and all over the pasture lands of Sharon. (
In the Jordan Valley it included Beth Haram, Bethnimrah, Sukkoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of King Sihon of Heshbon. Their western border was the Jordan River as far north as Lake Galilee.
Moses had given a part of the land to the families of half the tribe of Manasseh as their possession.