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Chapter 5 |
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Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but
forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the
sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after
the birthright. |
| 2 | For
Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the
birthright was Joseph's:) |
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The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu,
Hezron, and Carmi. |
| 4 | The
sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, |
| 5 | Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his
son, |
| 6 | Beerah his son,
whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the
Reubenites. |
| 7 | And his
brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was
reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, |
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8 | And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of
Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baalmeon: |
| 9 | And eastward he inhabited unto the
entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle
were multiplied in the land of Gilead. |
| 10 | And in the days of Saul they made war with the
Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all
the east land of Gilead. |
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And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto
Salcah: |
| 12 | Joel the
chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan. |
| 13 | And their brethren of the house of
their fathers were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan,
and Zia, and Heber, seven. |
| 14
| These are the children 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 the house of their fathers. |
| 16 | And they dwelt in Gilead
in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their
borders. |
| 17 | All these
were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the
days of Jeroboam king of Israel. |
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18 | The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of
Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with
bow, and skillful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and
threescore, that went out to the war. |
| 19 | And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and
Nephish, and Nodab. |
| 20 |
And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their
hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he
was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him. |
| 21 | And they took away their cattle; of
their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and
of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand. |
| 22 | For there fell down many slain,
because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the
captivity. |
| 23 | And the
children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from
Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon. |
| 24 | And these were the heads of the house
of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah,
and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, and heads of the
house of their fathers. |
| 25 |
And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring
after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them. |
| 26 | And the God of Israel
stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser
king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the
Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and
Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day. |
