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son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,
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Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his son,
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Beerah his son,
whom Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away
captive:
he
was
prince of the Reubenites.
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And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned,
were
the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
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And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who
dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-meon:
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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.
10
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.
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And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salchah:
12
Joel
the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
13
And their brethren of the
house of their fathers
were,
Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia,
and Heber, seven.
14
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;
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Ahi the son
of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.
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And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan,
and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.
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All these were reckoned
by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
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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.
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And they made war with the
Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.
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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.
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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.
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For there fell down many slain, because
the war
was
of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.
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And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan
unto Baal-hermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.
24
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.
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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.
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And the God of Israel stirred up the
spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser 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.
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