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Gad

Mentioned 1061–725 BC traditional (Jones)

A prophet who joined David in the “hold,” and at whose advice he quitted it for the forest of Hareth (1 Chr. 29:29; 2 Chr. 29:25; 1 Sam. 22:5). Many years after we find mention made of him in connection with the punishment inflicted for numbering the people (2 Sam. 24:11-19; 1 Chr. 21:9-19).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

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13 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Family tree of Gad: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Gad, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

  1. location not graded: Hereth1
  2. location unknown: Judah1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1145–641 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Gad’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Gad in 13 tagged verses across 4 books.

Select a book to read its verses.

  1. 1 Samuel1
  2. 2 Samuel5
  3. 1 Chronicles6
  4. 2 Chronicles1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBGad 49
KJVGad 72
ASVGad 72

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 13 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

1 Samuel1 verse
  1. 22:5

    Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Depart and go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

2 Samuel5 verses
  1. 24:11

    When David got up in the morning, the word of the LORD had come to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:

  2. 24:13

    So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

  3. 24:14

    David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”

  4. 24:18

    And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

  5. 24:19

    So David went up at the word of Gad, just as the LORD had commanded.

1 Chronicles6 verses
  1. 21:9

    And the LORD instructed Gad, David’s seer,

  2. 21:11

    So Gad went and said to David, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You must choose

  3. 21:13

    David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”

  4. 21:18

    Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  5. 21:19

    So David went up at the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD.

  6. 29:29

    Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are indeed written in the Chronicles of Samuel the Seer, the Chronicles of Nathan the Prophet, and the Chronicles of Gad the Seer,

2 Chronicles1 verse
  1. 29:25

    Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres according to the command of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet. For the command had come from the LORD through His prophets.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

A prophet who joined David in the “hold,” and at whose advice he quitted it for the forest of Hareth (1 Chr. 29:29; 2 Chr. 29:25; 1 Sam. 22:5). Many years after we find mention made of him in connection with the punishment inflicted for numbering the people (2 Sam. 24:11-19; 1 Chr. 21:9-19). He wrote a book called the “Acts of David” (1 Chr. 29:29), and assisted in the arrangements for the musical services of the “house of God” (2 Chr. 29:25). He bore the title of “the king’s seer” (2 Sam. 24:11, 13; 1 Chr. 21:9).