The river Euphrates, which lay between Mesopotamia and Chaldea, Genesis 15:18, which for its largeness and famousness is oft called the river emphatically, as Exodus 23:31 Joshua 24:2,3, &c. And set his face, i.e. resolutely directed his course. See Jeremiah 50:5 Luke 9:51,53. Mount Gilead, a very high and long mountain beyond Jordan, adjoining to the mountain of Lebanon, at the foot of which there was a large and fruitful country, which from the mountain received the name of Gilead, Deuteronomy 34:1 Jeremiah 8:22, Jeremiah 22:6. This mountain is here called Gilead by anticipation, as appears from Genesis 31:48.
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Genesis 31:21
21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.