M.| OF | |+----------+ | || |Issachar, | || |400 Sq. M. TERRITORY OF THE TRIBES. | |+------+ | || |Zebulon, | || |300 Sq. M. | |+---+ | || |Asher, | || |300 Sq. M. | |+---+ | || |Benjamin, | || |300 Sq. M. | |+---+ | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ III. =The Half Tribe of Manasseh, East= (Num. 32:39-42; Josh. 13:29-31), occupied the northern portion of Eastern Palestine, generally known in the Old Testament as Bashan, larger than the portion assigned to any one tribe. It extended from Mahanaim northward to Mount Hermon, and from the river Jordan and its two northern lakes eastward to the desert. Though some of this land is a desert, yet most of it is fertile, and even now it is called "the granary of Palestine." It consists of undulating plains between two masses of mountains; the one on the east, now known as _el Ledja_, and the other on the side of the Jordan Valley. On its western hills were Aphek, and Golan, a city of refuge; near its centre were Ashtaroth, the former capital of Og, who reigned over Bashan before the conquest, and Edrei. Kenath, taken by Nobah, was at the foot of _el Ledja_, east of the line of the map. Its people never conquered the Geshurites on the east, and were separated from their brethren by the Canaanites in the Jordan Valley (see map on page 50), so that they were not closely identified with the history of Israel, and were the first to be carried away captive. (2 Kings 10:32, 33.)