<Li> Gilead is the theocratic nation which replaces the United States in Margaret Atwood's dystopic novel The Handmaid's Tale . </Li> <Li> The first title of a multi-generational trilogy by Marilynne Robinson . The story is about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart . The title of the trilogy comes from the fictional setting of the town in the novel, Gilead (novel), Iowa . </Li> <Li> Gilead is the fictional home of Roland Deschain and Capital of the Barony of New Canaan from Stephen King's series "The Dark Tower". </Li>

Who was the land of gilead given to