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The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
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Geshur and Aram took from them the villages of Jair, that is, Kenath and its towns, sixty cities in all, which had belonged to the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.
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and the clans of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. From these the Zorahites and the Eshtaolites derived.
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together with all their outlying villages as far as Baal. Here is where they dwelt, and so it was inscribed of them in their family records.
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They who have just been listed by name set out during the reign of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and attacked their tents and also the Meunites who were there. They put them under the ban that is still in force to this day and dwelt in their place because they found pasture there for their flocks.
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Five hundred of them (the Simeonites) went to Mount Seir, with Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, sons of Ishi, at their head.
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In Saul’s time they waged war with the Hagrites, and when they had defeated them they dwelt in their tents throughout the region east of Gilead.
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Gad. The Gadites lived alongside them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah.
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The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh were warriors, men who bore shield and sword and who drew the bow, trained in warfare—forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty men fit for military service.
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they received help so that the Hagrites and all who were with them were delivered into their power. For during the battle they cried out to God, and he heard them because they had put their trust in him.
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However, they acted treacherously toward the God of their ancestors by prostituting themselves to follow the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.
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Therefore the God of Israel stirred up against them the anger of Pul, king of Assyria, and the anger of Tilgath-pilneser [sic], king of Assyria, who deported the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh and brought them to Halah, Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, where they have remained to this day. Levi.
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They served as singers before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting until Solomon built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they performed their services according to the order prescribed for them.
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The following were their dwelling places, by encampments in their territories. To the sons of Aaron who belonged to the clan of the Kohathites, since the lot fell to them,
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designating them by name and assigning them by lot from the tribes of the Judahites, Simeonites, and Benjaminites.
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Along with them, in their generations, according to ancestral houses, were thirty-six thousand men in organized military troops, since they had more wives and children
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Also Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera. The last, who led them into exile, became the father of Uzza and Ahihud.
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Shaharaim became a father on the Moabite plateau after he had put away his wives Hushim and Baara.
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and Beriah, and Shema. They were family heads of those who dwelt in Aijalon, and they put the inhabitants of Gath to flight.
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In all, those who were chosen for gatekeepers at the threshold were two hundred and twelve. They were inscribed in the family records of their villages. David and Samuel the seer had established them in their position of trust.
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Their brothers who lived in their own villages took turns in assisting them for seven-day periods,
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Some of them had charge of the vessels used there, tallying them as they were brought in and taken out.
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Chapter 10
Death of Saul and His Sons. Now the Philistines went to war against Israel, and Israel fled before them, and they fell, slain on Mount Gilboa.
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Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through; otherwise these uncircumcised will come and abuse me.” But the armor-bearer, badly frightened, refused, so Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.
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When the armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell upon his sword and died.