1 Chronicles 5

¹The sonnes also of Reuben the eldest sonne of Israel (for he was the eldest, but had defiled his fathers bed, therefore his birthright was giuen vnto the sonnes of Ioseph the sonne of Israel, so that the genealogie is not rekoned after his birthright.

²For Iudah preuailed aboue his brethren, and of him came the prince, but the birthright was Iosephs)

³The sonnes of Reuben the eldest sonne of Israel, were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.

⁴The sonnes of Ioel, Shemaiah his sonne, Gog his sonne, and Shimei his sonne,

⁵Michah his sonne, Reaiah his sonne, and Baal his sonne,

⁶Beerah his sonne: whom Tilgath Pilneeser King of Asshur caryed away: he was a prince of the Reubenites.

⁷And when his brethren in their families rekoned the genealogie of their generations, Ieiel and Zechariah were the chiefe,

⁸And Bela the sonne of Azaz, the sonne of Shema, the sonne of Ioel, which dwelt in Aroer, euen vnto Nebo and Baal meon.

⁹Also Eastwarde he inhabited vnto the entring in of the wildernes from the riuer Perath for they had much cattel in the land of Gilead.

¹⁰And in the dayes of Saul they warred with the Hagarims, which fell by their hands: and they dwelt in their tentes in all the East partes of Gilead.

¹¹And the children of Gad dwelt ouer against them in the land of Bashan, vnto Salchah.

¹²Ioel was the chiefest, and Shapham the second, but Iaanai and Shaphat were in Bashan.