Machir (Gen 50:23)
Husband of Maacah, father of Hammolecheth, Peresh and Sheresh, in the Exodus and wilderness years. Named in scripture at Genesis 50:23.
What we know — and how we know it
Where in scripture
GenesisNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudges1 ChroniclesJoseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.
Genesis 50:23
The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
Numbers 26:29
Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph came near. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
Numbers 27:1
The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
Numbers 32:39
Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.
Numbers 32:40
The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel.
Numbers 36:1
I gave Gilead to Machir.
Deuteronomy 3:15
Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir according to their families.
Joshua 13:31
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.