[1] The Song of Deborah speaks of officers (mechokekim) coming from Machir to join the battle against Sisera.
[1] Machir "may have been an independent clan that was eventually absorbed within Manasseh.
"[1] Other hypotheses include the idea that Manasseh was originally a clan within Machir which became more prominent than the rest of the tribe, or that Manasseh may have been another group who displaced the Machirites.
[2] After the time in Egypt, the Bible records that Moses gave the region of Gilead to Machir as part of the eastern half of the inheritance of Manasseh (Deuteronomy 3).
[2] The region is understood in tradition to be identical to the portion of the land of Gilead given to Machir the son of Manasseh by Moses (Numbers 32:40, Deuteronomy 3:15).