The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Chronicles 05
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, whenthe
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 oftheir fathers’ houses:
Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan,
Zia, and Eber, seven.
14 These were the sons of Abihail, the son
ofHuri,the sonofJaroah,the sonof 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 ofJothamking ofJudah, and inthe
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 skillful in war, were
forty-four thousand seven hundred 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, andall who were withthem;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 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 valor, 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 ofIsrael stirredup 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