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1 Chronicles 5:9-19 Modern English Version (MEV)

9. And he dwelt toward the east as far as the entrance to the wilderness from the Euphrates, for their cattle were abundant in the land of Gilead.

10. Now in the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand, and they dwelt in their tents over all the eastern plains of Gilead.

11. The sons of Gad dwelt opposite them in the land of Bashan as far as Salekah.

12. Joel was the first, Shapham the second, with Janai and Shaphat in Bashan.

13. Their brothers of their father’s house wereMichael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jakan, Zia, and Eber, seven in all.

14. These are the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the sonof 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 the head of their father’s house.

16. They dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the outlands of Sharon to the edge of their borders.

17. All of them were registered by genealogy 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 numbered forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty valiant men, men able to bear shield and sword, to shoot with a bow, and who were skillful in battle, who went to war.

19. They made war with the Hagrites, namely Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab.

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