1 Chronicles 5

About 1 Chronicles 1 Chronicles retells Israel's history from Adam to David, focusing on David and the worship of God.

Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.Selected1 Chronicles 5:1Ask

For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s:)Selected1 Chronicles 5:2Ask

The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.Selected1 Chronicles 5:3Ask

The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,Selected1 Chronicles 5:4Ask

Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his son,Selected1 Chronicles 5:5Ask

Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.Selected1 Chronicles 5:6Ask

And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,Selected1 Chronicles 5:7Ask

And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baalmeon:Selected1 Chronicles 5:8Ask

And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.Selected1 Chronicles 5:9Ask

And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.Selected1 Chronicles 5:10Ask

And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salcah:Selected1 Chronicles 5:11Ask

Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.Selected1 Chronicles 5:12Ask

And their brethren of the house of their fathers were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven.Selected1 Chronicles 5:13Ask

These are the children 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;Selected1 Chronicles 5:14Ask

Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.Selected1 Chronicles 5:15Ask

And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.Selected1 Chronicles 5:16Ask

All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.Selected1 Chronicles 5:17Ask

The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.Selected1 Chronicles 5:18Ask

And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.Selected1 Chronicles 5:19Ask

And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.Selected1 Chronicles 5:20Ask

And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.Selected1 Chronicles 5:21Ask

For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.Selected1 Chronicles 5:22Ask

And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.Selected1 Chronicles 5:23Ask

And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.Selected1 Chronicles 5:24Ask

And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.Selected1 Chronicles 5:25Ask

And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.Selected1 Chronicles 5:26Ask

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