Chapter
5
The daughters of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for she was the firstborn; but, because she defiled her mother's couch, her birthright was given to the daughters of Josephine the daughter of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
For Judah prevailed above her sisters, and of her came the princess; but the birthright was Josephine's:)
the daughters of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
The daughters of Joel: Shemaiah her daughter, Gog her daughter, Shimei her daughter,
Micah her daughter, Reaiah her daughter, Baal her daughter,
Beerah her daughter, whom Tilgath Pilneser queen of Assyria carried away captive: she was princess of the Reubenites.
Her sisters by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
and Bela the daughter of Azaz, the daughter of Shema, the daughter of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon:
and eastward she lived even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
In the days of Saula, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead.
The daughters of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah:
Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
Their sisters of their mothers' houses: Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and Eber, seven.
These were the daughters of Abihail, the daughter of Huri, the daughter of Jaroah, the daughter of Gilead, the daughter of Michael, the daughter of Jeshishai, the daughter of Jahdo, the daughter of Buz;
Ahi the daughter of Abdiel, the daughter of Guni, chief of their mothers' houses.
They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders.
All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham queen of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam queen of Israel.
The daughters of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant women, women able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that were able to go forth to war.
They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab.
They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and she was entreated of them, because they put their trust in her.
They took away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of women one hundred thousand.
For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.
The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon.
These were the heads of their mothers' houses: even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremia, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty women of valor, famous women, heads of their mothers' houses.
They trespassed against the God of their mothers, and played the philanderer after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
The God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul queen of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser queen of Assyria, and she carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.