1 Chronicles 5:2-12

2 For Yehudah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Yosef's:)

3 the sons of Re'uven the firstborn of Yisra'el: Hanokh, and Pallu, Hetzron, and Karmi.

4 The sons of Yo'el: Shemayah his son, Gog his son, Shim`i his son,

5 Mikhah his son, Re'ayah his son, Ba`al his son,

6 Be'erah his son, whom Tilgat-Pilne'eser king of Ashshur carried away captive: he was prince of the Re'uveni.

7 His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Ye`i'el, and Zekharyah,

8 and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Yo'el, who lived in `Aro`er, even to Nevo and Ba`al-Me`on:

9 and eastward he lived even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Perat, because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gil`ad.

10 In the days of Sha'ul, they made war with the Hagrim, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the [land] east of Gil`ad.

11 The sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salkhah:

12 Yo'el the chief, and Shafam the second, and Ya`nai, and Shafat in Bashan.

1 Chronicles 5:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 5

This chapter relates the genealogy of the tribes that lived on the other side Jordan; of the Reubenites, 1Ch 5:1-10, of the Gadites, 1Ch 5:11-17 of the half tribe of Manasseh, 1Ch 5:23,24 and of their war with the Hagarites, in conjunction with each other, and their conquest of them, 1Ch 5:18-22 and who for their sins were all carried captive by the king of Assyria, 1Ch 5:25,26.