like the other tribes east of the Jordan was exposed on the north and east to Aram-Damascus and later the Assyrians.

Archaeological evidence

Gad is mentioned in the Mesha Stele (ca 840 BCE), where the Moabite king Mesha boast about his conquest of Atoroth (very probably Khirbat Ataruz): "And the men of Gad dwelled in the country of Ataroth from ancient times, and the king

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