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. Gen 35:22Gen 29:32Gen 48:15-22Gen 49:3-4Exo 6:141Ch 26:101Co 5:11Ch 2:1 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s:) 1 Mat 2:6Mic 5:2Gen 49:8-10Heb 7:14Psa 60:7Psa 108:8Jer 23:5-6Psa 78:68-71 The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. Gen 46:9Exo 6:14Num 26:5-9 The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his son, Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites. 2 1Ch 5:262Ch 28:202Ki 15:292Ki 16:7 And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, 1Ch 5:17 And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-meon: 3 Num 32:381Ch 5:4Num 32:34Deu 32:49Deu 34:1Ezk 25:9Isa 15:2Isa 17:2 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. Jos 22:8-9 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. 4 1Ch 5:18-21Gen 25:12Psa 83:6Gen 21:9
¶ And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salchah: Jos 13:11Jos 13:24-28Deu 3:10-17Num 32:34-36 Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan. And their brethren of the house of their fathers were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven. 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; Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers. And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders. 5 1Ch 27:29Isa 35:2Sng 2:1 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel. 2Ki 14:162Ki 14:282Ki 15:322Ki 15:52Ch 27:12Ki 14:23
¶ 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 skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war. 6 Jos 4:12-13Num 1:3 And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab. 1Ch 1:31Gen 25:151Ch 5:10 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. Psa 22:4-5Psa 9:102Ch 18:31Psa 20:7-8Jos 10:14Nam 1:71Ch 5:22Jos 10:42 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. 7 8 Num 31:35Rev 18:13 For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity. 2Ch 32:8Jos 23:10Rom 8:312Ki 15:292Ki 17:61Ch 6:261Ch 4:41
¶ And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal-hermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon. Deu 3:8-9Sng 4:8Jos 13:11Jos 13:29-31Psa 133:3 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 valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers. 9 1Ch 4:38
¶ 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. Hos 1:2Psa 106:34-39Rev 17:52Ki 17:7-18Exo 34:15Hos 9:12Ch 25:14-15Deu 32:15-18 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 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. 2Ki 15:192Ki 15:292Ki 17:62Ki 18:111Ch 5:62Ch 33:112Ki 16:72Ki 19:12