And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
The Israelites asked Phinehas, a priest's son, to go to the people of Reuben, Gad, and half-Manasseh in the Gilead region.