1 | The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father`s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. | 1Ch 2:1 Gn 29:32 Gn 46:8 Gn 49:3 Ex 6:14 Nm 1:5 Nm 16:1 Nm 26:5 |
2 | For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph`s:) | Gn 35:23 Gn 49:8-10 Nm 2:3 Nm 7:12 Jsh 14:6 Jg 1:2 Ps 60:7 Ps 108:8 Mic 5:2 Mt 2:6 Heb 7:14 Rev 5:5 |
3 | the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. | Gn 46:9 Ex 6:14 Nm 26:5-9 |
4 | The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, |
5 | Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, |
6 | Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites. | 1Ch 5:26 2Ki 15:29 2Ki 16:7 |
7 | His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, |
8 | and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal-meon: | 1Ch 5:4 |
9 | and eastward he lived even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead. | Jsh 22:8 Jsh 22:9 |
10 | In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the [land] east of Gilead. | 1Ch 5:19 1Ch 5:20 Gn 21:9 Gn 25:12 Ps 83:6 |
11 | The sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah: | Nm 32:34-36 Dt 3:10-17 Jsh 13:11 Jsh 13:24-28 |
12 | Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan. |
13 | Their brothers of their fathers` houses: Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and Eber, seven. |
14 | These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz; |
15 | Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers` houses. |
16 | They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders. | 1Ch 27:29 So 2:1 Isa 35:2 |
17 | All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel. | 2Ki 15:5 2Ki 15:32 2Ch 27:1 |
18 | The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that were able to go forth to war. | Jsh 4:12 Jsh 4:13 |
19 | They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab. | 1Ch 1:31 Gn 25:15 |
20 | They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him. | 1Ch 5:22 Ex 17:11 Jsh 10:14 Jsh 10:42 1Sa 7:12 1Sa 19:15 Ps 46:1 Ps 146:5 Ps 146:6 |
21 | They took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand. | Nm 31:35 Rev 18:13 |
22 | For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity. | Jsh 23:10 2Ch 32:8 Ro 8:31 |
23 | The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal-hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon. | Jsh 13:29-31 |
24 | These were the heads of their fathers` houses: even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers` houses. | 1Ch 4:38 |
25 | They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them. | Jg 2:17 Jg 8:33 2Ki 17:7-18 Hos 1:2 Hos 9:1 Rev 17:5 |
26 | The God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day. | 2Sa 24:1 2Ch 33:11 Ezr 1:5 Isa 10:5 Isa 10:6 Isa 13:2-5 |