1 Chronicles 5:1-26

1 The line of Reuben (who lost his birthright) vnto the captiuitie.

9 Their habitation and conquest of the Hagarites.

11 The chiefe men, and habitations of Gad.

18 The number and conquest of Reuben, Gad, and the halfe of Manasseh.

23 The habitations and chiefe men of that halfe tribe.

25 Their captiuitie for their sinne.

1 Now the sonnes of Reuben the first borne of Israel, (for [Note: Genesis 35:22; Genesis 49:4.] hee was the first borne, but, forasmuch as he defiled his fathers bed, his birthright was giuen vnto the

[Simeons genealogie, and Reubens.]

sonnes of Ioseph the sonne of Israel: and the genealogie is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

2 For [Note: Genesis 49:9-10.] Iudah preuailed aboue his brethren, and of him came the [Note: Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:6.] chiefe [Note: Or, Prince.] rulers, but the birthright was [Note: Genesis 46:9; Exodus 6:14; Numbers 26:5.] Iosephs.

3 The [Note: Genesis 46:9; Exodus 6:14; Numbers 26:5.] sonnes, I say, of Reuben the first borne of Israel were: Hanoch, and Pallu, Ezron, and Carmi.

4 The sonnes of Ioel: Shemaiah his sonne: Gog his sonne: Shimei his sonne:

5 Micah his son: Reaia his sonne: Baal his sonne.

6 Beerah his sonne: whom [Note: Or Tiglath-pilneser, 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 16:7.] Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, carried away captiue: He was Prince of the Reubenites.

7 And his brethren by their families (when the genealogie of their generations was reckoned) were the chiefe, Ieiel, and Zechariah,

8 And Bela the sonne of Azah, the sonne of [Note: Or, Shemaiah, ver 4.] Shema, the sonne of Ioel, who dwelt in [Note: Joshua 13:15-16.] Aroer, euen vnto Nebo, and Baalmeon.

9 And Eastward he inhabited vnto the entring in of the wildernes, from the riuer Euphrates: because their cattell were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

10 And in the dayes of Saul, they made warre with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents [Note: Hebrew: vpon all the face of the East.] throughout all the East land of Gilead.

11 And the children of Gad dwelt ouer against them, in the land of [Note: Joshua 13:11.] Bashan vnto Salchah.

12 Ioel the chiefe, and Shapham the next: and Iaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.

13 And their brethren of the house of their fathers, were: Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Iorai, and Iachan, and Zia, and Heber, seuen.

14 These are the children of Abihail the sonne of Huri, the sonne of Iaroah, the sonne of Gilead, the sonne of Michael, the sonne of Ieshishai, the sonne of Iahdo, the sonne of Buz:

15 Ahi the sonne of Abdiel, the sonne of Guni, chiefe of the house of their fathers.

16 And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her townes, and in all the Suburbs of [Note: 1 Chronicles 27:29.] Sharon, vpon [Note: Hebrew: their goings forth.] their borders.

[The genealogie of the Leuites.]

17 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the dayes of Iotham [Note: 2 Kings 15:5; 2 Kings 15:32.] king of Iudah, and in the dayes of Ieroboam king of Israel.

18 The sonnes of Reuben, and the Gadites, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh, of [Note: Hebrew: sons of valour.] valiant men, men able to beare buckler and sword, and to shoote with bow, and skilfull in warre, were foure and fourtie thousand, seuen hundred and threescore, that went out to the warre.

19 And they made warre with the Hagarites, with [Note: Genesis 25:15.] Ietur, and Nephish, and Nodab.

20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were deliuered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battell, and he was intreated of them, because they put their trust in him.

21 And they [Note: Hebrew: led captiue.] tooke away their cattell: of their camels fiftie thousand, and of sheepe two hundred and fiftie thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of [Note: Hebrew: soules of men, as Numbers 31:35.] men an hundred thousand.

22 For there fell downe many slaine, because the warre was of God. And they dwelt in their steads vntil the captiuity.

23 And the children of the halfe tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the lande: they increased from Bashan vnto Baal-hermon, and Senir, and vnto mount Hermon.

24 And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, euen Epher, and Ishi, & Eliel, and Azriel, and Ieremiah, and Hodauiah, and Iahdiel, mightie men of valour, [Note: Hebrew: men of names.] famous men, & heads of the house of their fathers.

25 And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went [Note: 2 Kings 17:7.] a whoring after the Gods of the people of the land, whome God destroyed before them.

26 And the God of Israel stirred vp the spirit of [Note: 2 Kings 15:19.] Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he caried them away (euen the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh:) & brought them vnto [Note: 2 Kings 17:6.] Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the riuer Gozan, vnto this day.