1The sons of Ruben the eldest son of Israel: for he was the eldest. But because he defied his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and so he is not reckoned unto the birth right.
2For unto Juda which was mighty among his brethren, was given the principality before him. But the birth right was given Joseph.
3The sons then of Ruben the eldest son of Israel, were Henoch, Phalu, Hezron and Carmi.
4The sons of Joel: Samaiah, and his son Gog, and his son Semei,
5and his son Micah, and the son of him was Reaiah, and his son was Baal,
6and Beerah was his son. Which Beerah Thiglath Phalneser, king of Assiria carried away: for he was a great lord among the Rubenites.
7But unto his brethren in their kindreds, when they are reckoned after their birth, were Jeiel and Zachariah the chief heads.
8And Bala the son of Azan the son of Sema the son of Joel, dwelt in Aroer and so forth unto Nebo and Baalmaon.
9And eastward he inhabited until the wilderness, even upon the river Euphrates, for their cattle was much in the land of Gilead.
10And in the days of Saul they warred with the Hagarites which were overthrown by their hands. And they dwelt in their tents thorowout all the east land of Gilead.
11And the Children of Gad dwelt over against them in the land of Basan, even unto Selcah.
12And in Basan Joel was the chiefest and Sapham the next, then Jaanai and Saphat.
13And their brethren in the ancient households of them, were Michael, Mosolam, Seba, Jorai, Joacan, Zia, Eber and Senen.
14These were the children of Abihail the son of Hurl the son of Jeroah Gilead the son of Michael the son of Jesisai the son of Jahado the son of Buz.
15Ahi was the son of Abdiel the son of Guni the head of an ancient household among them.
16And they dwelt in Gilead and in Basan and her towns, and in all the suburbs of Saron, even unto the end of their borders.
17And they were all reckoned by kindreds in the days of Jotham king of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
18The sons of Ruben of Gad and of half the tribe of Manasse, even of fighting men able to bear shield and sword, and shoot with bow, and taught to make war, were four and forty thousand seven hundredth and three score that went out to battle.
19And they fought with the Hagarities and with Jesur, Naphas and Nobab.
20And they were holp against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hands with all that were with the Hagarites. For they cried to God in their battle, and he heard them, because they trusted to him.
21And they took of their cattle fifty thousand camels, and two hundredth and fifty thousand sheep, and two thousand asses, and of the people an hundredth thousand:
22for there fell many dead because the war was of God. And they dwelt there in their steads until the time that they were carried away.
23And the children of half the tribe of Manasse dwelt in the land, from Basan unto Baal Hermon and Samir and unto mount Hermon, and they were many.
24And these were the heads of the ancient households of them: Epher, Jesi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaiah, Jehadiel, men of great power, men of name and heads of the ancient households of them.
25But when they had transgressed against the God of their fathers and had gone awhoring after the gods of the people of the land, which God destroyed before them,
26God stirred up the spirit of Phul king of Assiria and the spirit of Thiglath Phalneser king of Assiria, and carried away the Rubenites, the Gaddites and the half tribe of Manasse, and brought them unto Helah, Habor, Hara and to the River Gozan, where they remain unto this day.