And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
Eastward he inhabited ... The settlement was on the east of Jordan, and the history of this tribe, which never took any part in the public affairs or movements of the nation, is comprised in 'the multiplication of their cattle in the land of Gilead,' in their 'wars with the Bedouin sons of Hagar, and in the simple labours of pastoral life. They had the right of pasture over an extensive mountain-range, the great wilderness of Kedemoth (Deuteronomy 2:26) and the Euphrates being a security against their enemies. If their possession did not extend to this limit in the time of Moses or Joshua, it did in the reign of David; and it affords an unmistakeable proof of the increase of their herds and flocks when they pastured them as far eastward as the Euphrates.