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1 Chronicles 5 — TOJB

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5Verse 1Now the Bnei Reuven the bechor Yisroel, for he was the bechor; but forasmuch as he defiled the bed of aviv, his bechorah (firstborn birthright) was given unto the Bnei Yosef Ben Yisroel, though [the latter was] not listed in the family registers as the bechorah.Verse 2For Yehudah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the nagid; but the bechorah (portion of the firstborn) was Yosefʼs.Verse 3The Bnei Reuven bechor Yisroel were Chanokh, and Pallu, Chetzron, and Carmi.Verse 4The Bnei Yoel: Shema'yah bno, Gog bno, Shime'i bno,Verse 5Michah bno, Reayah bno, Ba'al bno,Verse 6Be'erah bno, whom Tilgat Pilneser Melech Ashur carried away into the Golus; he was nasi of the Reuveni.Verse 7And his relatives by their mishpekhot, when the genealogy of their toldot was reckoned, were the rosh, Ye'iel, and Zecharyah,Verse 8And Bela Ben Azaz Ben Shema Ben Yoel who dwelt in Aro'er, even unto Nevo and Ba'al-Me'on;Verse 9And eastward he inhabited as far as the beginning of the midbar from the river Euphrates, because their mikneh (livestock) were multiplied in Eretz Gil'ad.Verse 10And in the days of Sha'ul they made milchamah with the Hagari'im, who fell by their yad; and they dwelt in their ohalim (tents) throughout all the area east of Gil'ad.Verse 11And the Bnei Gad dwelt next to them, in the Eretz Bashan as far as Salkhah;Verse 12Yoel the rosh, and Shapham the mishneh (second), and Ya'nai, and Shaphat in Bashan.Verse 13And their achim of the bais avoteihem were Micha'el, and Meshullam, and Sheva, and Yorai, and Yakan, and Zia, and Ever, shivah (seven) in all.Verse 14These are the Bnei Avichayil Ben Churi Ben Yaroach Ben Gil'ad Ben Micha'el Ben Yeshishai Ben Yachdo Ben Buz.Verse 15Achi Ben Avdi'el Ben Guni was rosh of the bais avoteihem.Verse 16And they dwelt in Gil'ad in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the migrashim (open lands) of Sharon, within their borders.Verse 17All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Yotam Melech Yehudah, and in the days of Yarov'am Melech Yisroel.Verse 18The Bnei Reuven, and the Gadi, and half the shevet (tribe) of Menasheh, of bnei chayil, anashim able to bear mogen and cherev, and to shoot with keshet, and trained for milchamah, were four and forty elef seven hundred and threescore, that were ready for military service.Verse 19And they waged milchamah against the Hagari'im, with Yetur, and Naphish, and Nodav.Verse 20And they were helped against them, and the Hagari'im were delivered into their yad, and all that were with them, for they cried to Elohim in the milchamah, and He was entreated of them+because they put their trust in Him.Verse 21And they took away their mikneh: of their gemalim fifty elef, and of tzon two hundred and fifty elef, and of chamorim two thousand, and of nefesh adam a hundred elef.Verse 22For there fell down many slain, because the milchamah was Elohimʼs. And they took up residence in their place until the Golus.Verse 23And Bnei chatzi (half) shevet Menasheh dwelt in the land. They increased from Bashan unto Ba'al-Chermon and Senir, and unto Har Chermon.Verse 24And these were the heads of the bais avotam, even Epher, Yishi, Eliel, Azriel, Yirmeyah, and Hodavyah, and Yachdiel, anashim gibborei chayil, famous men, and heads of the bais avotam.Verse 25And they transgressed against Elohei Avoteihem, and went a-whoring after the elohim of the peoples of the land, whom Elohim made shmad before them.Verse 26And Elohei Yisroel stirred up the ruach of Pul Melech Ashur, and the ruach of Tilgat Pilneser Melech Ashur, and he carried them away into Golus, even the Reuveni, and the Gadi, and the half tribe of Menasheh, and brought them unto Chalach, and Chavor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.Verse 27The Bnei Levi: Gershon, Kehat, and Merari.Verse 28And the Bnei Kehat: Amram, Yitzhar, and Chevron, and Uzziel.Verse 29And the Bnei Amram: Aharon, and Moshe, and Miryam. The bnei Aharon; Nadav, and Avihu, El'azar, and Itamar.Verse 30El'azar fathered Pinchas, Pinchas fathered Avishua,Verse 31And Avishua fathered Bukki, and Bukki fathered Uzzi,Verse 32And Uzzi fathered Zerachyah, and Zerachyah fathered Merayot,Verse 33Merayot fathered Amaryah, and Amaryah fathered Achituv,Verse 34And Achituv fathered Tzadok, and Tzadok fathered Achima'atz,Verse 35And Achima'atz fathered Azaryah, and Azaryah fathered Yochanan,Verse 36And Yochanan fathered Azaryah (he it is that executed the kohenʼs office in the Beis+that Sh'lomo built in Yerushalayim),Verse 37And Azaryah fathered Amaryah, and Amaryah fathered Achituv,Verse 38And Achituv fathered Tzadok, and Tzadok fathered Shallum,Verse 39And Shallum fathered Chilkiyah, and Chilkiyah fathered Azaryah,Verse 40And Azaryah fathered Serayah, and Serayah fathered Yehotzadak,Verse 41And Yehotzadak went into the Golus, when Hashem carried away Yehudah and Yerushalayim by the yad of Nevukhadnetzar.
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