Gilad (Gilead) is a fertile pasture region on the eastern side of the Jordan River, stretching from the Kinneret Sea to the Dead Sea.

• Yaakov's confrontation with Lavan happened at Gilad (Genesis 31, 21-54).
• The group of Ishmaelites who came to the brothers in the story of the selling of Yosef were coming from the Gilad region (Genesis 37, 25).
• Gilad was divided among the tribes of Gad, Reuven, and half of Menashe (Numbers 32, 1; Devarim 3, 12-16).
• Moshe conquered the Gilad region from Kings Sihon of the Amorites and Og of the Bashan  (Numbers Joshua 12, 2-5, et al).
• Pinhas and the tribal princes were sent to Gilad to find out why the two and a half tribes on the other side of the Jordan had built an altar there (Joshua 22, 13-32).
• The men who did not fight with Gideon were told to watch  from Mount Gilad (Judges 7, 3).
• Yiftah fought Bnei Ammon at Gilad, and was buried there (Judges 10, 17-18; Judges 11, 1-33; Judges 12, 7).
• Gilad is mentioned in the context of Shaul’s war against the Plishtim (I Samuel 13, 7).
• Ishboshet reigned over Gilad (II Samuel 2, 9).
• After Avshalom’s revolt against David, Yoav fought against Avshalom at Gilad (II Samuel 17, 26).
• David’s census included Gilad (II Samuel 24, 6).
• Gilad was mentioned as being part of Shlomo’s kingdom (I Kings 4, 13-19).
• Eliyahu came from Gilad (I Kings 17, 1).
• Aram conquered part of the Gilad in the days of Yehu (II Kings 10, 32-33; Amos 1, 3).
• Amos refers to Bnei Ammon as having conquered part of the Gilad (Amos 1, 13).
• Hoshea rebukes Israel for their activities in Gilad (Hosea 6, 8; 12, 12).
• Tiglat-Pileser  exiled the Israelite inhabitants of Gilad and brought them to Assyria (II Kings 15, 29).
• Gilad was known as a place of healing; it was a source of therapeutic balm (Jeremiah 8, 22; 46, 11).
• Yirmiyahu rebukes Bnei Ammon for settling in Gilad after the Assyrian Exile of the Northern Kingdom of Israel (Jeremiah 49, 1).
• Yirmiyahu and Zekharya prophesy the return of Bnei Yisrael to Gilad (Jeremiah 50, 19; Zachariah 10,10).