1 Chronicles 5:1–6:15

Genealogy from Reuben

¹Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for ^ahe was the firstborn, but because ^bhe defiled his father’s bed, ^chis birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; so that he is not enrolled in the genealogy according to the birthright.

^2aThough Judah prevailed over his brothers, and ^bfrom him came the leader, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph),

^3athe sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.

⁴The sons of Joel were Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, ^aShimei his son,

⁵Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,

⁶Beerah his son, whom ¹Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away into exile; he was leader of the Reubenites.

⁷His ¹kinsmen by their families, ^ain the genealogy of their generations, were Jeiel the chief, then Zechariah

⁸and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in ^aAroer, even to Nebo and Baal-meon.

⁹To the east he settled as far as the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, ^abecause their cattle had increased in the land of Gilead.

¹⁰In the days of Saul ^athey made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand, so that they ¹occupied their tents throughout ²all the land east of Gilead.

¹¹Now the sons of Gad lived opposite them in the land of ^aBashan as far as ^bSalecah.

¹²Joel was the chief and Shapham the second, then Janai and Shaphat in Bashan.

¹³Their ¹kinsmen of their fathers’ households were Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia and Eber, seven.

¹⁴These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

¹⁵Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, was head of their fathers’ households.

¹⁶They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of ^aSharon, as far as their ¹borders.

¹⁷All of these were enrolled in the genealogies in the days of ^aJotham king of Judah and in the days of ^bJeroboam king of Israel.

¹⁸The sons of Reuben and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, consisting of valiant men, men who bore shield and sword and shot with bow and were skillful in battle, were 44,760, who ^awent to war.

¹⁹They made war against ^athe Hagrites, ^bJetur, Naphish and Nodab.

²⁰They were helped against them, and the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hand; for ^athey cried out to God in the battle, and He answered their prayers because ^bthey trusted in Him.

²¹They took away their cattle: their 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep, 2,000 donkeys; and 100,000 ¹men.

²²For many fell slain, because ^athe war was of God. And ^bthey settled in their place until the ^cexile.

²³Now the sons of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land; from Bashan to Baal-hermon and ^aSenir and Mount Hermon they were numerous.

²⁴These were the heads of their fathers’ households, even Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers’ households.

²⁵But they ^aacted treacherously against the God of their fathers and ^bplayed the harlot ^cafter the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

²⁶So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of ^aPul, king of Assyria, even the spirit of ¹Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he ^bcarried them away into exile, namely the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara and to the river of Gozan, to this day.

Chapter 6

Genealogy: The Priestly Line

^11aThe sons of Levi were ²Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

²The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.

³The children of Amram were Aaron, Moses and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

⁴Eleazar ¹became the father of Phinehas, and Phinehas became the father of Abishua,

⁵and Abishua became the father of Bukki, and Bukki became the father of Uzzi,

⁶and Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah became the father of Meraioth,

⁷Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub,

⁸and ^aAhitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok ^bbecame the father of Ahimaaz,

⁹and Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah, and Azariah became the father of Johanan,

¹⁰and Johanan became the father of Azariah (^ait was he who served as the priest in the house ^bwhich Solomon built in Jerusalem),

¹¹and ^aAzariah became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub,

¹²and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of ¹Shallum,

¹³and Shallum became the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah became the father of Azariah,

¹⁴and Azariah became the father of ^aSeraiah, and Seraiah became the father of Jehozadak;

¹⁵and Jehozadak went along when the Lord carried Judah and Jerusalem away into exile ¹by Nebuchadnezzar.