1 Chronicles 5

Revised Geneva Translation

5 Also the sons of Reuben, the eldest son of Israel— for he was the eldest but had defiled his father’s bed. Therefore, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, so that the genealogy is not listed by birthright.

² For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and from him came the Prince. But the birthright was Joseph’s—

³ the sons of Reuben, the eldest son of Israel, were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.

⁴ The sons of Joel were Shemaiah, Gog his son, Shimei his son,

⁵ Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son

⁶ and Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria, carried away. He was a prince of the Reubenites.

⁷ And when his brethren in their families listed the genealogy of their generations, Jeiel and Zechariah were the chiefs,

⁸ And Bela, the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal Meon.

⁹ Also he inhabited eastward, to the entrance of the wilderness, from the river Perath. For they had many cattle in the land of Gilead.

¹⁰ And in the days of Saul they warred with the Hagrites, who fell by their hands. And they dwelt in their tents in all the eastern parts of Gilead.

¹¹ And the children of Gad dwelt opposite them in the land of Bashan, to Salcah.

¹² Joel was the chief, and Shapham the second. But Jaanai and Shaphat were 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 Eber (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 household of their fathers.

¹⁶ And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, by 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 of Gad and of half the tribe of Manasseh, of those who were valiant men, able to bear shield and sword, and to draw a bow exercised in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred sixty, who went out to the war.

¹⁹ And they made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur and Naphish and Nodab.

²⁰ And they were helped in fighting 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 heard them, because they trusted in Him.

²¹ And they led away their cattle, their fifty thousand camels and two hundred fifty thousand sheep and two thousand donkeys, and a hundred thousand people.

²² For many fell down wounded, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their places until the Captivity.

²³ And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land, from Bashan to Baal Hermon and Senir and to Mount Hermon. For they increased.

²⁴ And these were the heads of the households of their fathers: Epher and Ishi and Eliel and Azriel and Jeremiah and Hodaviah and Jahdiel, strong men, valiant and famous, heads of the households of their fathers.

²⁵ But they transgressed against the God of their fathers and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

²⁶ And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria. And he carried them away— the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh— and brought them to Halah and Habor and Hara and to the river Gozan, to this day.