At this time Israel was apparently engaged in a three-way contest with Damascus and Tyre for control of the Jezreel Valley and Galilee in the north, and with Moab, Ammon and Damascus in the east for control of Gilead ; the Mesha stele ( c. 830 ), left by a king of Moab, celebrates his success in throwing off the oppression of the " House of Omri " ( i. e. Israel ).

Set in a fictional stereotypical Christian republic with dictatorship called " Republic " of Gilead in post-apocalyptic ruins of United States.

His father, never quite content with his current job or possessions, was forever swapping for something better, and was usually in debt ; he owned a farm, taught at a rural school north of Mount Gilead, Ohio and also acquired a medical degree and started a small practice.

In 1157, with Baldwin on campaign in Antioch, Melisende saw an opportunity to take el-Hablis, which controlled the lands of Gilead beyond the Jordan.

It has been identified by some with el-Ishtib, a place 22 miles due south of the Sea of Galilee, among the mountains of Gilead.

( Tradition regards these as region names with the region Gilead being named so, long before the grandson of Manasseh.

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale begins with the discovery of a footlocker full of cassette tapes in the ruins of what was once Bangor, a prominent way-station on " The Underground Femaleroad " in the dystopic Republic of Gilead.

Barnett also gives the text of a document from 1769 in the records of the Gilead Lutheran Church " When it had pleased the Almighty and Merciful God in His goodness to plant the Evangelical Lutheran Church in this American part of the world also, and especially in the State of New York, during the reign of Queen Anna, and also in this neighborhood and district called Hosek Road, in Rensselaerwyck, Albany County, then more than twenty years ago, a small body of adherents of the above said Lutheran church, disposed to that end did build and erect a prayer and church House to the Honor of God, and for their convenience, upon that lot of ground which our most worthy Patroon generously gave to promote and perpetuate the service of God and for the better maintenance of our preacher, for which purpose he presented us with a Deed of Gift which We acknowledge with heartfelt thanks towards our Good Lord in Heaven, and that in addition He grants us all hereabouts by His grace that we through the permission of the Government are allowed to carry on our pure Lutheran Church service free and without hindrance.

Exit 23 ( Gilead Road ) connects the expressway with the original town.

Like many small southern towns, Mount Gilead suffered decline with the loss of textile jobs.

As they pondered what to do with Joseph, the brothers saw a camel caravan of Ishmaelites coming out of Gilead, carrying spices and perfumes to Egypt, for trade.

; 1880: Laurence Oliphant publishes The land of Gilead, with excursions in the Lebanon which proposes a settlement under British protection while respecting Ottoman sovereignty.

Along with the half of Gilead it was given to the half-tribe of Manasseh ().

Like Asher, Gad's geographic details are diverse and divergent, with cities sometimes indicated as being part of Gad, and sometimes as part of other tribes, and with inconsistent boundaries, with Gilead sometimes including Gad and sometimes not.

There were obvious linguistic differences between at least one portion of Joseph and the other Israelite tribes, since at a time when Ephraim were at war with the Israelites of Gilead, under the leadership of Jephthah, the pronunciation of shibboleth as sibboleth was considered sufficient evidence to single out individuals from Ephraim, so that they could be subjected to immediate death by the Israelites of Gilead.

Working closely with long-time collaborator David Kalish, with whom Jones first worked on 1981's Pirates, Jones released Balm in Gilead on the Fantasy label in November 2009.

After the local governments were destroyed due to rebellions similar to the one led by John Farson in Roland's own Gilead, Luddites began defending their city from roving gangs (" harriers ") who pillaged any village they came across.

In the year 1863, Henry Pray and George Robinson came here and moved to what is called the Balm of Gilead Point.

Gilead Elementary, Candor Elementary, Page Street Elementary, Green Ridge Elementary, West Montgomery Middle, East Montgomery Middle, East Montgomery High, and West Montgomery High

* East Gilead

Other minor communities and geographic features are: Dufree Hill, East Neck, Fog Plain, Gilead, Goshen, Great Neck, Harrisons, Lake's Pond, Logger Hill, Mago Point, Magonk, Mullen Hill, Oswegatchie, Pepperbox Road, Pleasure Beach, Ridgewood Park, Riverside Beach, Spithead, Strand, West Neck.

* East Gilead is just north of the Indiana state border at.

* Buckingham, James Silk ( 1821 ): Travels in Palestine Through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead, East of the River Jordan, Including a Visit to the Cities of Geraza and Gamala in the Decapolis

* ( 1821 ): Travels in Palestine Through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead, East of the River Jordan, Including a Visit to the Cities of Geraza and Gamala in the Decapolis In two volumes, Only VOL.

* Buckingham, James Silk ( 1821 ): Travels in Palestine Through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead, East of the River Jordan, Including a Visit to the Cities of Geraza and Gamala in the Decapolis 553p.

* Buckingham, James Silk ( 1821 ): Travels in Palestine Through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead, East of the River Jordan, Including a Visit to the Cities of Geraza and Gamala in the Decapolis

In July 2006, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) approved Atripla, a once a day single tablet regimen for HIV, combining Sustiva ( efavirenz ), a Bristol-Myers Squibb product, and Truvada ( emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate ), a Gilead product.

She was a proud member of the Durham Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, served with distinction at her home church of Mount Gilead Baptist Church and was active in the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, Links, the National Council of Negro Women, her Bridge club and a plethora of other civic groups.

She now serves on international advisory boards for American International Group, the Coca-Cola Company, Gilead Sciences, Inc., J. P. Morgan Chase and Rolls Royce as well as the board of the U. S .- China Business Council.

File: mount-gilead-ohio-jail. jpg | Mansard roof on a county jail, Mount Gilead, Ohio.

William F. Albright has dated his reign to 737 – 732 BC, while E. R. Thiele, following H. J. Cook and Carl Lederer, held that Pekah set up in Gilead a rival reign to Menahem's Samaria-based kingdom in Nisan of 752 BC, becoming sole ruler on his assassination of Menahem's son Pekahiah in 740 / 739 BC and dying in 732 / 731 BC.

The petition was granted on June 23, 1804 and Peabody's Patent became Gilead.

Gilead is the first town encountered when crossing into Maine from New Hampshire on U. S. Route 2, which is the major road in the town.

* Gilead is on the east side of Lake Gilead at.

* A 1942 photograph in the Library of Congress, long thought to be a picture of another small Ohio town ( Mount Gilead ), was recently identified as Mount Orab by sharp-eyed observers on the Shorpy. com website.

Mount Gilead, Ohio, the county seat, is located northeast of Cardington on U. S. Route 42.

Located in the center of the village is Morrow County's historic World War I Victory Memorial Shaft, unique in the United States, and Mount Gilead State Park is nearby on State Route 95.

Four properties in Mount Gilead are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the floral hall at the county fairgrounds, Levering Hall, the Morrow County Courthouse, and the James S. Trimble House.

Buckingham Township is home to a gravity hill, on Buckingham Mountain near Mount Gilead African Methodist Episcopal Church.

This country extended from Gilead in the south to Hermon in the north, and from the Jordan river on the west to Salcah on the east.

Not only do Roland of Gilead and his ka-tet have to protect the Calla-folken from the Wolves, they must also protect a single red rose that grows in a vacant lot on Second Avenue and Forty-Sixth Street in mid-town Manhattan of 1977.

It lies on the east of Jordan, not far from Mahanaim, and was some part of the great forest of Gilead – an area where the Israelites had settled.

Balm in Gilead, American dramatist Lanford Wilson's first full-length play, centers on a café frequented by heroin addicts, prostitutes, and thieves.

The song “ Balsam in Gilead ”, based on, was included in Jehovah's Witnesses ' 1984 songbook " Sing Praises to Jehovah ".

** Mizpah in Gilead ( Genesis ), the place where Laban overtook Jacob on his return to Canaan