1 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright. 2 For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)— 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, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive. He was prince of the Reubenites. 7 His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was listed: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, 8 and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon; 9 and he lived eastward even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead. 10 In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead. 11 The sons of Gad lived beside them in the land of Bashan to Salecah: 12 Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan. 13 Their brothers of their fathers’ houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven. 14 These were the sons 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, chief of their fathers’ houses. 16 They lived in Gilead in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of Sharon as far as 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, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, able to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were forty-four thousand and seven hundred and sixty that were able to go out to war. 19 They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab. 20 They were helped against 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 answered them because they put their trust in him. 21 They took away their livestock: of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand. 22 For many fell slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity. 23 The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land. They increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. 24 These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel—mighty men of valour, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses. 25 They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land whom God destroyed before them. 26 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried away the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.
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People & places in this chapter
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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)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 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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