Places
Gilead in Numbers 32
GIL-ee-ad
This place shows up in Numbers 32:1: “Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer, and the land…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
Numbers 32:1
“Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;”
What kids can learn
When you hear gilead in Numbers, remember the sentence around it. God put this place in the story on purpose.
Read Numbers 32:1 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Numbers 32:1
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
NowthechildrenofReubenandtheofGadhadagreatmultitudeoflivestock.WhentheysawthelandofJazer,andthelandofGilead,thatbehold,theplacewasaforlivestock;