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The descendants of Reuben

¹The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel—he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright went to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, and the genealogy is not set out according to the birthright;^{a 2}for Judah grew stronger than his brothers, and a ruler came from him, though the birthright belonged to Joseph—

³the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. ⁴The descendants of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, ⁵Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, ⁶and Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria took away into exile. He was a leader of the Reubenites. ⁷His relatives by their clans, as their generations were recorded in the genealogy, were Jeiel the chief, Zechariah, ⁸and Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel. He lived in Aroer and as far as Nebo and Baal-meon. ⁹To the east he settled as far as the edge of the desert that stretches from the Euphrates River, because their herds had grown large in the land of Gilead. ¹⁰In the days of Saul they made war on the Hagrites, who fell into their power, and they lived in their tents across the whole region east of Gilead.

The descendants of Gad

¹¹The Gadites lived next to them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah. ¹²Joel was the chief, Shapham the second, then Janai and Shaphat in Bashan. ¹³Their relatives by their ancestral families were Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia and Eber, seven in all.

¹⁴These were the sons of Abihail son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz. ¹⁵Ahi son of Abdiel, son of Guni, was head of their ancestral family. ¹⁶They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its villages, and in all the pasturelands of Sharon to their farthest edges. ¹⁷All of them were entered in the genealogies while Jotham was king of Judah and Jeroboam was king of Israel.

¹⁸The Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh had capable warriors, men who carried shield and sword, drew the bow and were trained for war: 44,760 who could go out to war. ¹⁹They made war on the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish and Nodab. ²⁰They received help against them, and the Hagrites and everyone with them were handed over to them, because they called out to God during the battle, and he answered their prayer, since they trusted in him. ²¹They captured their livestock, 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep and 2,000 donkeys, and they took 100,000 people captive. ²²Many fell dead, because the war was God’s doing. And they lived in their place until the exile.

The half-tribe of Manasseh east of the Jordan

²³The members of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land. They grew numerous from Bashan to Baal-hermon, Senir and Mount Hermon. ²⁴These were the heads of their ancestral families: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah and Jahdiel. All of them were mighty warriors and famous men, heads of their ancestral families. ²⁵But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and gave themselves like prostitutes to the gods of the peoples of the land, peoples God had destroyed before them. ²⁶So the God of Israel stirred the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, that is, of Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and he carried them into exile, the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh. He took them to Halah, Habor, Hara and the river of Gozan, and they remain there to this day.^b

The line of the high priests

²⁷The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.^{c 28}The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.

²⁹The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

³⁰Eleazar was the father of Phinehas, and Phinehas was the father of Abishua. ³¹Abishua was the father of Bukki, and Bukki was the father of Uzzi. ³²Uzzi was the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah was the father of Meraioth. ³³Meraioth was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub. ³⁴Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Ahimaaz. ³⁵Ahimaaz was the father of Azariah, and Azariah was the father of Johanan. ³⁶Johanan was the father of Azariah. It was he who was priest in the temple Solomon built in Jerusalem.^{d 37}Azariah was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub. ³⁸Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Shallum. ³⁹Shallum was the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah was the father of Azariah. ⁴⁰Azariah was the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah was the father of Jehozadak. ⁴¹Jehozadak went into exile when the LORD exiled Judah and Jerusalem through Nebuchadnezzar.