1 Chronicles 5

Descendants of Reuben

1 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel ( c for he was the firstborn, but because d he defiled his father's couch, e his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son; 2 f though Judah became strong among his brothers and a g chief came from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph), 3 the h sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 4 The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, 5 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, 6 Beerah his son, whom i Tiglath-pileser 1 king of Assyria carried away into exile; he was a chief of the Reubenites. 7 And his kinsmen by their clans, j when the genealogy of their generations was recorded: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, 8 and Bela the son of Azaz, son of k Shema, son of Joel, who lived in l Aroer, as far as m Nebo and n Baal-meon. 9 He also lived to the east as far as the entrance of the desert this side of the Euphrates, because their livestock had multiplied o in the land of Gilead. 10 And in the days of Saul they waged war against the p Hagrites, who fell into their hand. And they lived in their tents throughout all the region east of Gilead.

Descendants of Gad

11 The sons of Gad lived over against them in the land of Bashan as far as q Salecah: 12 Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan. 13 And their kinsmen according to their fathers' houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia and Eber, seven. 14 These were the sons of Abihail the son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz. 15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, son of Guni, was chief in their fathers' houses, 16 and they lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasturelands of r Sharon to their limits. 17 All of these were recorded in genealogies in the days of s Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of t Jeroboam king of Israel.

18 The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had valiant men who carried shield and sword, and drew the bow, u expert in war, 44,760, able to go to war. 19 They waged war against the v Hagrites, w Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab. 20 And when they prevailed over them, the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hands, x for they cried out to God in the battle, and he granted their urgent plea y because they trusted in him. 21 They carried off their livestock: 50,000 of their camels, 250,000 sheep, 2,000 donkeys, and 100,000 men alive. 22 For many fell, because the war was of God. And they lived z in their place until a the exile.

The Half-Tribe of Manasseh

23 The members of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land. They were very numerous from Bashan to Baal-hermon, b Senir, and Mount Hermon. 24 These were the heads of their fathers' houses: Epher, 2 Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses. 25 But they broke faith with the God of their fathers, and c whored d after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. 26 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of e Pul king of Assyria, the spirit of f Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them g to Halah, g Habor, Hara, and g the river Gozan, to this day.

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 29:32
    And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because the Lord has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.
    Genesis 49:3
    Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the firstfruits of my strength, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 35:22
    While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine. And Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
    Genesis 49:4
    Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it - he went up to my couch!
  3. Cross References
    Genesis 48:15 - 22
    And he blessed Joseph and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 49:8 - 10
    Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down before you.
  5. Cross References
    Micah 5:2
    But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
    Matthew 2:6
    "'And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'"
  6. Cross References
    Genesis 46:9
    And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
    Exodus 6:14
    These are the heads of their fathers' houses: the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the clans of Reuben.
    Numbers 26:5 - 6
    Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites.
  7. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 28:20
    So Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.
  8. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 5:17
    All of these were recorded in genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
  9. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 5:4
    The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son.
  10. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 2:36
    From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The Lord our God gave all into our hands.
    Joshua 13:16
    So their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba.
  11. Cross References
    Numbers 32:3
    Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon.
  12. Cross References
    Numbers 32:38
    Nebo, and Baal-meon ( their names were changed), and Sibmah. And they gave other names to the cities that they built.
  13. Cross References
    Joshua 22:9
    So the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home, parting from the people of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, their own land of which they had possessed themselves by command of the Lord through Moses.
  14. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 5:19 - 20
    They waged war against the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab.
    1 Chronicles 11:38
    Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri.
    1 Chronicles 27:30
    Over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite. Over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.
  15. Cross References
    Joshua 12:5
    And ruled over Mount Hermon and Salecah and all Bashan to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon.
    Joshua 13:11
    And Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah.
  16. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 27:29
    Over the herds that pastured in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; over the herds in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai.
  17. Cross References
    2 Kings 15:5
    And the Lord touched the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house. And Jotham the king's son was over the household, governing the people of the land.
    2 Kings 15:32
    In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
  18. Cross References
    2 Kings 14:16
    And Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel, and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.
    2 Kings 14:28
    Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he restored Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
  19. Cross References
    Numbers 1:3
    From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company.
  20. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 5:10
    And in the days of Saul they waged war against the Hagrites, who fell into their hand. And they lived in their tents throughout all the region east of Gilead.
  21. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 1:31
    Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
    Genesis 25:15
    Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
  22. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 14:11
    And Asa cried to the Lord his God, "O Lord, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.
    2 Chronicles 18:31
    As soon as the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "It is the king of Israel." So they turned to fight against him. And Jehoshaphat cried out, and the Lord helped him; God drew them away from him.
  23. Cross References
    Psalms 22:4 - 5
    In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them.
  24. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 4:41
    These, registered by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and marked them for destruction to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.
  25. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 5:6
    Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria carried away into exile; he was a chief of the Reubenites.
    2 Kings 15:29
    In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.
    2 Kings 17:6
    In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
  26. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 3:9
    (the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, while the Amorites call it Senir).
    Ezekiel 27:5
    They made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
  27. Cross References
    Exodus 34:15
    Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice.
  28. Cross References
    2 Kings 17:7
    And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods
  29. Cross References
    2 Kings 15:19
    Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power.
  30. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 5:6
    Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria carried away into exile; he was a chief of the Reubenites.
  31. Cross References
    2 Kings 17:6
    In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
    2 Kings 18:11
    The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
  32. Cross References
    2 Kings 17:6
    In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
    2 Kings 18:11
    The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
  33. Cross References
    2 Kings 17:6
    In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
    2 Kings 18:11
    The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
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