Descendants of Reuben, Gad, Manasseh
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📚Now the sons of Reuben 📖, the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but, since he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph 📖, the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be counted according to the birthright. 2 📚For Judah 📖 prevailed over his brothers, and from him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s), 3 📚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 Tilgath-Pilneser 📖, king of Assyria, took away captive; he was the leader of the Reubenites. 7 📚And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was listed, were Jeiel the chief, and Zechariah, 8 📚and Bela, the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-Meon: 9 📚and on the east he lived up to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates; because their cattle had increased 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 lived in their tents throughout all the eastern region of Gilead.11 📚And the children of Gad lived opposite them, in the land of Bashan up to Salcah. 12 Joel was their 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, was chief of the house of their fathers. 16 📚And they lived in Gilead in Bashan and in her towns and in all the areas of Sharon, on their borders. 17 📚All these were listed by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
18 📚The sons of Reuben and the Gadites and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to carry shield and sword and to shoot with the bow and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty who 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 hands, and all who were with them; for they cried out to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him.
21 📚And they took away their livestock, fifty thousand of their camels, and two hundred and fifty thousand of their sheep, and two thousand donkeys, and a hundred thousand men. 22 📚For many fell slain, because the war was from God. And they lived in their places until the captivity.
23 📚And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh 📖 lived in the region. They became numerous from Bashan to Baal-Hermon and Senir and to Mount Hermon. 24 📚And these were the heads of the house of their fathers: Epher and Ishi and Eliel and Azriel and Jeremiah and Hodaviah and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men and heads of the house of their fathers.
25 📚And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and prostituted themselves 📖 to 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 Tilgath Pilneser, king of Assyria, and he took the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh away, and brought them to Halah and Habor and Hara and to the river Gozan, as it is to this day.