There was also a lot for the tribe of Manas´seh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manas´seh, the father of Gil´e-ad: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gil´e-ad and Bashan.
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 Gil´e-ad.
Out of E´phra-im was there a root of them against Am´alek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zeb´ulun they that handle the pen of the writer.