Chapter 5 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, for Judah prevailed
above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler, but the birthright was
Joseph's.
The sons, I say, of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch, and Paliu,
Hezron, and Carmi.
The sons of Joel, Shimei, his son, Gog, his son, Shimei, his son,
Micah, his son, Reaiah, his son, Baal, his son, Beera, his son,
whom Tilgath Pilneser, king of Assyria, carried away captive.
He was prince of the Reubenites.
And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations
was reckoned, were the chief, Jeael, and Zechariah, and Bela, the son of Azaz,
the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroah, even unto Nebo and
Baal-meon.
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.
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 eastland of Gilead.
And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan, unto Salchah,
Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jani and Shaphat in Bashan.
And the brethren of the house of their fathers were Michael, and Meshulam,
and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Ziah, and Heba, seven.
These are the children of Abihael, the son of Hurai, the son of Jeroah,
the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jashishai, the son of Jardo,
the son of Buz, Ahai the son of Abdeel, the son of Gunai, 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.
All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham, king of Judah,
and in the days of Jeroboam, king of Israel.
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 skillful in war, were four and forty thousand, seven hundred and three score,
that went out to the war.
And they made war with the Hagorites, with Jeter, and Nephish, and Nodab.
And they were helped against them, and the Hagorites were delivered into
their hand, and all that were with them.
For they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they
put their trust in him.
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 a hundred thousand.
For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God.
And they dwelt in their steds until the captivity.
And the children of the half-tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land.
They increased from Bashan unto Baal Hermon, and Sina, and unto Mount Hermon.
And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Ephah, and Ishai,
and Elial, and Azrael, and Jeremiah, and Hodiviah, and Jadiel, mighty men of
valor, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.
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.
And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Paul, 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 Hela, and Habor, and Hera, and to the river Gozan,
unto this day.