¹And concerning the sons of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, although he was the firstborn, by his violation of his father's bed, his firstborn status was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and he was not registered as having firstborn status. ²For Judah became strong among his brothers, and he was destined for a leader to stem from him, but the firstborn status was Joseph's. ³The sons of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, were Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi. ⁴The sons of Joel were Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, ⁵Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, ⁶Beerah his son whom Tilgath-Pilneser king of Assyria deported. He was a leader of the Reubenites. ⁷And his brothers according to their families, according to the registration of their genealogy were Jeiel the head, and Zechariah, ⁸and Bela, the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel. He dwelt in Aroer, and as far as Nebo and Baal-Meon. ⁹And in the east he dwelt as far as the way into the desert, up to the River Euphrates, because their cattle had increased in the land of Gilead. ¹⁰And in the days of Saul they waged war against the Hagarites, who fell into their hand. And they lived in their tents, over the whole landscape of the east of Gilead. ¹¹And the sons of Gad lived opposite them in the land of Bashan, as far as Salcah. ¹²And Joel was the head, and Shapham was second, then there were Jaanai and Shaphat in Bashan. ¹³And their brothers according to their paternal house were Michael and Meshullam and Sheba and Jorai and Jacan and Zia and Eber – seven of them. ¹⁴Those 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 the head of their paternal house. ¹⁶And they lived in Gilead in Bashan and its satellite towns and in all the pasture lands of Sharon in their most distant parts. ¹⁷They were all registered genealogically in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel. ¹⁸The sons of Reuben and the Gadites and half of the tribe of Manasseh, with some of the soldiers – men who bore a shield and sword and drew a bow and who were skilled in war – were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty in number who went out to war. ¹⁹And they waged war against the Hagarites and Jetur and Naphish and Nodab. ²⁰And they were helped in fighting against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, as were all who were with them, for they cried out to God in the war, and he acceded to them, because they had put their trust in him. ²¹And they captured their cattle – fifty thousand of their camels and two hundred and fifty thousand of their sheep and two thousand donkeys – and one hundred thousand men, alive. ²²For many fell defeated, for the war was from God, and they lived there instead of them until the deportation. ²³And the sons of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land. They increased from Bashan to Baal-Hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon. ²⁴And these are the heads of their paternal house: both Epher and Ishi, and Eliel and Azriel and Jeremiah and Hodaviah and Jahdiel – men who were valiant warriors, men of renown, heads of their paternal house. ²⁵But they acted perversely with the God of their fathers, and they acted promiscuously in going after the gods of the various peoples of the land whom God had destroyed before them. ²⁶And the God of Israel aroused the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-Pilneser king of Assyria, and he deported them – that is the Reubenites and the Gadites and half of the tribe of Manasseh – and he brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara and the River Gozan, as it is up to this day.