﻿1 Chronicles.
Chapter 5.
The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn—he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, though the genealogy was not reckoned according to the birthright. 
Judah prevailed over his brothers, and a ruler came from him, but the birthright belonged to Joseph— 
the sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 
The descendants of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, 
Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, 
and Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried into exile. He was a leader of the Reubenites. 
His relatives, by their clans, when their genealogies were registered by their generations: Jeiel the chief, Zechariah, 
and Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel. He lived in Aroer as far as Nebo and Baal-meon. 
To the east he settled as far as the entrance to the wilderness stretching from the Euphrates River, because their livestock had increased in the land of Gilead. 
In the days of Saul they made war against the Hagrites, who fell into their hands. They settled in their tents throughout the region east of Gilead. 
The people of Gad lived opposite them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah. 
Joel was the chief, Shapham the second, with Janai and Shaphat in Bashan. 
Their relatives, by their ancestral houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven. 
These were descendants of Abihail son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz. 
Ahi son of Abdiel, son of Guni, was head of their ancestral house. 
They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its villages, and in all the pasturelands of Sharon as far as their boundaries. 
All these were registered by genealogy in the days of Jotham king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel. 
The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 valiant men who could serve in the army, men who carried shield and sword, drew the bow, and were trained for war. 
They made war against the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab. 
They received help against them, and the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hands. For they cried out to God in the battle, and he answered their plea because they trusted in him. 
They captured their livestock: 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep and goats, and 2,000 donkeys, as well as 100,000 people. 
Many fell slain, because the war was from God. They settled in their place until the exile. 
The people of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. They were numerous. 
These were the heads of their ancestral houses: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty warriors, men of renown, heads of their ancestral houses. 
But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and prostituted themselves after the gods of the peoples of the land whom God had destroyed before them. 
So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria. He carried into exile the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this day. 
