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1 Chronicles 5
⁸ and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal-meon.
⁹ To the east he settled as far as the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their cattle had increased in the land of Gilead.
¹⁰ In the days of Saul they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand, so that they occupied their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead.
¹¹ Now the sons of Gad lived opposite them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah.
¹² Joel was the chief and Shapham the second, then Janai and Shaphat in Bashan.
¹³ Their kinsmen of their fathers’ households were Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia and Eber, seven.
¹⁴ These were the sons 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;
¹⁵ Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, was head of their fathers’ households.
¹⁶ They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of Sharon, as far as their borders.
¹⁷ All of these were enrolled in the genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
¹⁸ The sons of Reuben and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, consisting of valiant men, men who bore shield and sword and shot with bow and were skillful in battle, were 44,760, who went to war.