Reuben, the Tribe Of

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Genesis 29:32 OT

  Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”

• Genesis 49:4 OT

  Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

• Deuteronomy 33:6 OT

  “Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few.”

• Numbers 1:5 OT

  These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.

• Numbers 13:4 OT

  These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.

• Numbers 1:20 OT

  The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

• Numbers 1:21 OT

  those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

• Numbers 10:18 OT

  The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.

• Numbers 2:10 OT

  “On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.

• Numbers 7:30-35 OT

  On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben, gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the…

• Numbers 26:5 OT

  Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

• Numbers 26:6 OT

  of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

• Numbers 26:8 OT

  The son of Pallu: Eliab.

• Numbers 26:9 OT

  The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram who were called by the congregation, who rebelled against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah when they rebelled against Yahweh;

• Numbers 32:1-33 OT

  Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. Behold, the place was a place for livestock. Then the children of Gad and the children of…

• Deuteronomy 3:18-20 OT

  I commanded you at that time, saying, “Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it. All of you men of valor shall pass over armed before your brothers, the children of Israel. But your wives, and your little ones, and your…

• Deuteronomy 3:16 OT

  To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

• Deuteronomy 3:17 OT

  the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

• Joshua 13:15-23 OT

  Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families. Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;…

• Numbers 26:7 OT

  These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were counted of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.

• Numbers 32:37 OT

  The children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

• Numbers 32:38 OT

  Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built.

• Deuteronomy 27:13 OT

  These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

• Joshua 22:1-9 OT

  Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you. You have not…