Map of Old Testament Israel - The Tribe of Reuben and their Allotted Territory
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REU`BEN (behold, a son!). Reuben was the oldest son of Jacob and Leah (Genesis 29:32). For his crime with Bilhah he lost the right of the firstborn, which was bestowed on Judah, Genesis 35:22. Reuben was responsible for saving the life of Joseph. Later he moved to Egypt with his father. The tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500 men at Mount Sinai. Because the tribe of Reuben had many herds it chose a portion beyond the Jordan,where the pasture was good, it was the area located between Moab and Gilead and near the Dead Sea. The tribe fell into idolatry and was carried away by Tiglath-Pileser.
Genesis 29:32 -
And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she
said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband
will love me.
Numbers 32:1 -
Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of
cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that,
behold, the place [was] a place for cattle;
Numbers 32:33 -
And Moses gave unto them, [even] to the children of Gad, and to the children of
Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of
Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with
the cities thereof in the coasts, [even] the cities of the country round about.
Numbers 32:37 -
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
Joshua 13:15 -
And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben [inheritance] according
to their families. And their coast was from Aroer, that [is] on the bank of the
river Arnon, and the city that [is] in the midst of the river, and all the plain
by Medeba; Heshbon, and all her cities that [are] in the plain; Dibon, and
Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon, And Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, And
Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the mount of the valley, And
Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth, And all the cities of the plain,
and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon,
whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur,
and Reba, [which were] dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country. Balaam also the
son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword
among them that were slain by them. And the border of the children of Reuben was
Jordan, and the border [thereof]. This [was] the inheritance of the children of
Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages thereof.
Joshua 18:7 -
But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD [is]
their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have
received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of
the LORD gave them.
Judges 5:15 -
And the princes of Issachar [were] with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak:
he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben [there were]
great thoughts of heart.
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The Tribe of Reuben at the
Exodus numbered 46,500 male adults, from twenty years old and upwards (Num.
1:20, 21), and at the close of the wilderness wanderings they numbered only
43,730 (26:7). This tribe united with that of Gad in asking permission to settle
in the "land of Gilead," "on the other side of Jordan" (32:1-5). The lot
assigned to Reuben was the smallest of the lots given to the trans-Jordanic
tribes. It extended from the Arnon, in the south along the coast of the Dead Sea
to its northern end, where the Jordan flows into it (Josh. 13:15-21, 23). It
thus embraced the original kingdom of Sihon. Reuben is "to the eastern tribes
what Simeon is to the western. 'Unstable as water,' he vanishes away into a mere
Arabian tribe. 'His men are few;' it is all he can do 'to live and not die.' We
hear of nothing beyond the multiplication of their cattle in the land of Gilead,
their spoils of 'camels fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand' (1 Chr. 5:9,
10, 20, 21). In the great struggles of the nation he never took part. The
complaint against him in the song of Deborah is the summary of his whole
history. 'By the streams of Reuben,' i.e., by the fresh streams which descend
from the eastern hills into the Jordan and the Dead Sea, on whose banks the
Bedouin chiefs met then as now to debate, in the 'streams' of Reuben great were
the 'desires'", i.e., resolutions which were never carried out, the people idly
resting among their flocks as if it were a time of peace (Judg. 5:15, 16).
Stanley's Sinai and Israel. All the three tribes on the east of Jordan at length
fell into complete apostasy, and the time of retribution came. God "stirred up
the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tiglath-pileser, king of
Assyria," to carry them away, the first of the tribes, into captivity (1 Chr.
5:25, 26). - Easton's, The Tribe of Reuben
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Reuben (behold a son), Jacob's firstborn Child, Ge 29:32 the son of Leah. (B.C.
1753.) The notices of the patriarch Reuben give, on the whole a favorable view
of his disposition. To him and him alone the preservation of Joseph's life
appears to have been due and afterward he becomes responsible for his safety. Ge
37:18-30; 42:37 Of the repulsive crime which mars his history, and which turned
the blessing of his dying father into a curse --his adulterous connection with
Bilhah-- we know from the Scriptures only the fact. Ge 35:22 He was of an
ardent, impetuous, unbalanced but not ungenerous nature; not crafty and cruel,
as were Simeon and Levi, but rather, to use the metaphor of the dying patriarch,
boiling up like a vessel of water over a rapid wood fire, and as quickly
subsiding when the fuel was withdrawn. At the time of the migration into Egypt,
Reuben's sons were four. Ge 46:9; 1Ch 5:3 The census at Mount Sinai, Nu 1:20,21;
2:11 shows that at the exodus the men of the tribe above twenty years of age and
fit for active warlike service numbered 46,600. The Reubenites maintained the
ancient calling of their forefathers. Their cattle accompanied them in their
flight from Egypt. Ex 12:38 Territory of the tribe. --The portion of the
promised land selected by Reuben had the special name of "the Mishor," with
reference possibly to its evenness. Under its modern name of the Belka it is
still esteemed beyond all others by the Arab sheep-masters. It was a fine
pasture-land east of the Jordan, lying between the river Arnon on the south and
Gilead on the north. Though the Israelites all aided the Reubenites in
conquering the land, and they in return helped their brothers to secure their
own possessions, still there was always afterward a bar, a difference in feeling
and habits, between the eastern and western tribes. The pile of stones which
they erected on the West bank of the Jordan to mark their boundary was erected
in accordance with the unalterable habits of Bedouin tribes both before and
since. This act was completely misunderstood and was construed into an attempt
to set up a rival altar to that of the sacred tent. No Judge, no prophet, no
hero of the tribe of Reuben is handed down to us. The Reubenites disliked war
clinging to their fields and pastures even when their brethren were in great
distress. Being remote from the seat of the national government and of the
national religion, it is not to be wondered at that the Reubenites relinquished
the faith of Jehovah. The last historical notice which we possess of them, while
it records this fact, records also as its natural consequence that they and the
Gadites and the half-tribe Manasseh were carried off by Pul and Tiglath-pileser.
1Ch 5:26
- Smith's
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Reuben Scriptures
Revelation 7:5 - Of the tribe of Juda [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad [were] sealed twelve thousand.
Numbers 34:14 - For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received [their inheritance]; and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance:
Numbers 32:1 - Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place [was] a place for cattle;
1 Chronicles 5:1 - 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.
Numbers 32:33 - And Moses gave unto them, [even] to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, [even] the cities of the country round about.
Joshua 22:25 - For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.
Numbers 2:16 - All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben [were] an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the second rank.
Joshua 22:31 - And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD [is] among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.
Genesis 48:5 - And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, [are] mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
1 Chronicles 6:78 - And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, [were given them] out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,
Joshua 22:9 - And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Joshua 22:10 - And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that [are] in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.
Joshua 22:11 - And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.
Ezekiel 48:31 - And the gates of the city [shall be] after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
Joshua 22:33 - And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
Joshua 22:32 - And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
Joshua 18:7 - But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD [is] their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.
Genesis 30:14 - And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
Genesis 42:37 - And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.
Numbers 32:29 - And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
Joshua 20:8 - And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 22:30 - And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which [were] with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.
Joshua 21:7 - The children of Merari by their families [had] out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
1 Chronicles 6:63 - Unto the sons of Merari [were given] by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
Joshua 22:13 - And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
Joshua 4:12 - And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:
Numbers 32:6 - And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
Joshua 21:36 - And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs,
Genesis 35:22 - And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard [it]. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
Judges 5:15 - And the princes of Issachar [were] with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben [there were] great thoughts of heart.
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