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Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father'sbed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
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For Judahprevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)
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The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu,Hezron, and Carmi.
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The sons of Joel;Shemaiah his son,Gog his son,Shimei his son,
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Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneser[a]king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.
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And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief,Jeiel, and Zechariah,
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And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema,[b] the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baalmeon:
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And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the riverEuphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
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And in the days of Saul they madewar with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tentsthroughout[c] all the east land of Gilead.
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And the children of Gaddwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salchah:
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Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
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And their brethren of the house of their fathers were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber,seven.
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These are the children 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;
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Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni,chief of the house of their fathers.
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And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.
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All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jothamking of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboamking of Israel.
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The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men,men able to bearbuckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and fortythousandsevenhundred and threescore, that went out to the war.
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And they madewar with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.
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And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.
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And they took away their cattle; of their camelsfiftythousand, and of sheep two hundred and fiftythousand, and of asses two thousand, and of menanhundredthousand.
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For there fell down manyslain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.
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And the children of the halftribe of Manassehdwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mountHermon.
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And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel,mightymen of valour,famous[d]men, and heads of the house of their fathers.
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And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoringafter the gods of the people of the land, whom Goddestroyedbefore them.
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And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pulking of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneserking of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the halftribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the riverGozan, unto this day.