2. Although Judah became the strongest among his brothers and a leader came from him, the birthright belonged to Joseph.
3. The family of Reuben, Israel’s oldest son: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
4. Joel’s family: his son Shemaiah, his son Gog, his son Shimei,
5. his son Micah, his son Reaiah, his son Baal,
6. and his son Beerah, whom Assyria’s King Tilgath-pilneser carried away into exile. He was a chief of the Reubenites.
7. His relatives, by their clans when their genealogy was listed in the records, were: Jeiel the first; Zechariah;
8. and Bela, Azaz’s son, Shema’s grandson, and Joel’s great-grandson.They lived in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-meon.