Moff 1 CHR Chapter 5

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5 Now for the sons of Reuben the eldest son of Israel. (He was the eldest, but, as he polluted his father's marriage-bed, his birthright was assigned to the sons of Joseph, Israel's son; although Joseph is not entered in the genealogy according to the birthright. The birthright did belong to Joseph, 2 but Judah was more powerful than his brothers, and from him came the leadership.) 3 The sons of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, were Hanok, Pallu, Hezron, and Karmi. 4 The sons of Joel were Shemaiah, Gog, Shimri, 5 Micah, Reaiah, Baal, 6 and Beerah, whom the Assyrian king Tilgath-pilneser carried off into exile--Beerah was a Reubenite chieftain, 7 and his kinsmen, reckoned by families in the genealogical records, were Jeiel the chief, then Zechariah, 8 and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, whose settlements at Aroer reached the length of Nebo and Baalmeon, 9 and stretched eastward as far as the opening of the desert ending at the river Euphrates--so numerous were their cattle in Gilead. 10 (During the reign of Saul the Reubenites attacked the Hagrites and cut them to pieces, occupying all their territory east of Gilead.)

11 Opposite them lived the sons of Gad, occupying the land of Bashan as far as Salecah. 12 Joel the chief, Shapham, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan, 13 with their seven fellow-clansmen Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jakan, Zia, and Eber, 14 were sons of Abihail (the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jehishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz . . . 15 Ahi, the son of Abdiel), all chiefs in their clan; 16 they lived in Gilead, in Bashan, in the townships, and in all the pasture lands of Sirion to their fullest extent. 17 These Gadites were all enrolled in the genealogical registers during the reign of Jotham king of Judah and during the reign of Jeroboam king of Israel.

18 The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-clan of Manasseh, brave fighters, able to carry shield and sword, good archers, and skilled warriors, amounted to forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty men, fit for active service. 19 They attacked the Hagrites, and also Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab. 20 God helped them and put the Hagrites and all their allies into their power; for they cried to God as they fought, and he answered them because they relied on him. 21 They carried off the enemy's cattle, fifty thousand camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, two thousand asses, and also a hundred thousand prisoners. 22 Many of the enemy were also slain, for the war was with God's sanction. Down to the exile, they lived in the dispossessed territory.

23 The members of the half-clan of Manasseh who lived in the country swarmed from Bashan to Baal-hermon and Senir or mount Hermon. 24 Their chiefs were Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, great fighters, famous men, and chiefs of the clan. 25 But they broke faith with the God of their fathers and went faithlessly after the gods of the naives whom God had destroyed

before them. 26 So the God of Israel roused up Pulu the king of Assyria and Tilgath-pilneser the king of Assyria, who carried them into exile, the Reubenites and the Gadites and the halfclan of Manasseh, taking them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they are to this day.

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