1 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. (Though he was the firstborn, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel because he had defiled his father's bed. That is why Reuben is not listed in the genealogy according to birthright, 2 and even though Judah became the strongest of his brothers and a ruler came from him, the birthright belonged to Joseph.) 3 The 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 and Beerah his son, the one whom Tiglath-Pileser the king of Assyria took into exile. He (Beerah) was a leader of the Reubenites. 7 Beerah's relatives are, listed in their genealogical records by family: Jeiel (chief), Zechariah, 8 and Bela of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel. They lived from Aroer to Nebo and Baal Meon. 9 On the eastern side they expanded into the land right up to the edge of the desert that continues to the Euphrates River, because their flocks had grown so big in Gilead. 10 In the time of Saul they went to war against the Hagrites, defeating them. They took over the places where the Hagrites had lived in all the regions east of Gilead. 11 Next to them the descendants of Gad lived in Basha, all the way to Salecah. 12 Joel (chief), Shapham (second), and Janai and Shaphat, in Bashan. 13 Their relatives, according to family, were: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber—a total of seven. 14 These were the sons of Abihail, son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz. 15 Ahi son of Abdiel, son of Guni, was their family chief. 16 They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its towns, and throughout the pasturelands of Sharon all the way to their borders. 17 They were all recorded in the genealogy during the time of Jotham, king of Judah, and Jeroboam, king of Israel. 18 The tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 battle-ready strong warriors capable of using shields and swords and bows. 19 They went to war against the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab. 20 They received help in fighting these enemies because they called out to God during the battles. In this way they were able to defeat the Hagrites and all who were with them. God answered their prayers because they trusted in him. 21 They captured their enemies' livestock—fifty thousand camels, two hundred fifty thousand sheep, and two thousand donkeys. They also captured one hundred thousand people, 22 and many others were killed because the battle belonged to God. They took over the land and lived there until the exile. 23 The half-tribe of Manasseh had grown very large. They lived in the land from Bashan to Baal Hermon (otherwise known as Senir and Mount Hermon). 24 These were the family heads: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel. They were strong warriors, famous men, heads of their families. 25 But they were unfaithful to the God of their forefathers. They prostituted themselves by following the gods of the peoples of the land, those that God had destroyed before them. 26 So the God of Israel encouraged Pul, king of Assyria (otherwise known as Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria), to invade the land. He took into exile the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh. He brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this very day.
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People
Abdiel
Abdiel is named as the son of Guni in the Gadite ancestry of Ahi (1 Chronicles 5:15).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:15
Abihail
A Gadite, son of Huri, whose seven sons (Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia and Eber) were kinsmen who lived in Gilead, Bashan and Sharon.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:14
Ahi
A Gadite, son of Abdiel, who was head of their family in Gilead and Bashan.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:15
Azaz
Azaz is listed as a son of Shema in the ancestry of Bela.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:8
Azriel
Azriel is named among the heads of the families of the half-tribe of Manasseh east of the Jordan, mighty men of valor and famous men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:24
Baal
Baal is listed as the son of Reaiah in the line of Joel in the genealogy of Reuben.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:5
Beerah
A leader of the Reubenites whom Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria carried into exile, last in the line descending from Joel.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:6
Bela
A Reubenite, son of Azaz, whose family settled in Aroer and as far as Nebo and Baal-meon and eastward to the desert because their livestock had increased in Gilead.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:8
Buz
Named at the head of Abihail's Gadite ancestry as the father of Jahdo; the text gives no father for him.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:14
Eber
Eber is listed as a son of Abihail in the Gadite families (kinsmen "seven in all", 1 Chronicles 5:13-14).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:13
Eliel
Eliel is named among the heads of the families of the half-tribe of Manasseh east of the Jordan, mighty men of valor and famous men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:24
Epher
Epher is named among the heads of the families of the half-tribe of Manasseh east of the Jordan, mighty men of valor and famous men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:24
Gilead
Gilead is named as the son of Michael in the Gadite ancestry of Abihail (1 Chronicles 5:14).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:14
Gog
Gog is listed as the son of Shemaiah in the line of Joel in the genealogy of Reuben.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:4
Guni
Named at the head of Ahi's Gadite ancestry as the father of Abdiel; the text gives no father for him.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:15
Hodaviah
Hodaviah is named among the heads of the families of the half-tribe of Manasseh east of the Jordan, mighty men of valor and famous men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:24
Huri
Huri is named as the son of Jaroah in the Gadite ancestry of Abihail (1 Chronicles 5:14).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:14
Ishi
Ishi is named among the heads of the families of the half-tribe of Manasseh east of the Jordan, mighty men of valor and famous men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:24
Jacan
Jacan is listed as a son of Abihail in the Gadite families (kinsmen "seven in all", 1 Chronicles 5:13-14).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:13
Jahdiel
Jahdiel is named among the heads of the families of the half-tribe of Manasseh east of the Jordan, mighty men of valor and famous men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:24
Jahdo
Jahdo is named as the son of Buz in the Gadite ancestry of Abihail (1 Chronicles 5:14).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:14
Jaroah
Jaroah is named as the son of Gilead in the Gadite ancestry of Abihail (1 Chronicles 5:14).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:14
Jeiel
Named first ("the chief") among the relatives of Beerah recorded by clan in the Reubenite genealogy.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:7
Jeremiah
Jeremiah is named among the heads of the families of the half-tribe of Manasseh east of the Jordan, mighty men of valor and famous men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:24
Jeshishai
Jeshishai is named as the son of Jahdo in the Gadite ancestry of Abihail (1 Chronicles 5:14).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:14
Joel
The chief of the descendants of Gad who lived in Bashan, named first in the list of Gadite leaders.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:12
Joel
A Reubenite whose descendants (Shemaiah, Gog, Shimei, Micah, Reaiah, Baal and Beerah) are listed; the text gives no father for him, and the Joel named in Bela's ancestry (5:8) is…
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:4; 1 Chronicles 5:8
Jorai
Jorai is listed as a son of Abihail in the Gadite families (kinsmen "seven in all", 1 Chronicles 5:13-14).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:13
Meshullam
Meshullam is listed as a son of Abihail in the Gadite families (kinsmen "seven in all", 1 Chronicles 5:13-14).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:13
Micah
Micah is listed as the son of Shimei in the line of Joel in the genealogy of Reuben.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:5
Michael
Michael is listed as a son of Abihail in the Gadite families (kinsmen "seven in all", 1 Chronicles 5:13-14).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:13
Michael
Michael is named as the son of Jeshishai in the Gadite ancestry of Abihail (1 Chronicles 5:14).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:14
Reaiah
Reaiah is listed as the son of Micah in the line of Joel in the genealogy of Reuben.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:5
Shapham
Named second among the Gadite leaders who lived in Bashan.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:12
Shaphat
A Gadite leader who lived in Bashan, named last in the list of Joel's fellow leaders.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:12
Sheba
Sheba is listed as a son of Abihail in the Gadite families (kinsmen "seven in all", 1 Chronicles 5:13-14).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:13
Shema
Shema is listed as a son of Joel in the ancestry of Bela (Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:8
Shemaiah
Shemaiah is listed as the son of Joel in the line of Joel in the genealogy of Reuben.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:4
Shimei
Shimei is listed as the son of Gog in the line of Joel in the genealogy of Reuben.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:4
Zechariah
Named with Jeiel among the relatives of Beerah recorded by clan in the Reubenite genealogy.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:7
Zia
Zia is listed as a son of Abihail in the Gadite families (kinsmen "seven in all", 1 Chronicles 5:13-14).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 5:13
Cross references (20)
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- 1 Genesis 35:22; Genesis 29:32; Genesis 48:15–22; Genesis 49:3–4; Exodus 6:14
- 2 Matthew 2:6; Micah 5:2; Genesis 49:8–10; Psalm 60:7; Hebrews 7:14
- 3 Genesis 46:9; Exodus 6:14; Numbers 26:5–9
- 6 1 Chronicles 5:26; 2 Chronicles 28:20; 2 Kings 16:7; 2 Kings 15:29
- 7 1 Chronicles 5:17
- 8 Numbers 32:38; Numbers 32:34; 1 Chronicles 5:4; Isaiah 15:2; Joshua 13:17
- 9 Joshua 22:8–9
- 10 Genesis 25:12; Psalm 83:6; 1 Chronicles 5:18–21; Genesis 21:9
- 11 Joshua 13:11; Joshua 13:24–28; Numbers 32:34–36; Deuteronomy 3:10–17
- 16 1 Chronicles 27:29; Song of Songs 2:1; Isaiah 35:2
- 17 2 Kings 15:32; 2 Kings 14:28; 2 Kings 14:16; 2 Kings 15:5; 2 Kings 14:23
- 18 Joshua 4:12–13; Numbers 1:3
- 19 1 Chronicles 1:31; Genesis 25:15; 1 Chronicles 5:10
- 20 Psalm 22:4–5; Psalm 9:10; 2 Chronicles 18:31; Psalm 20:7–8; Joshua 10:14
- 21 Numbers 31:35; Revelation 18:13
- 22 Joshua 23:10; 2 Chronicles 32:8; Romans 8:31; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 17:6
- 23 Deuteronomy 3:8–9; Song of Songs 4:8; Joshua 13:29–31; Joshua 13:11; Psalm 133:3
- 24 1 Chronicles 4:38
- 25 Psalm 106:34–39; Revelation 17:5; Hosea 1:2; Hosea 9:1; Exodus 34:15
- 26 2 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 18:11; 2 Chronicles 33:11
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