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1 Chronicles 5:9-19 World Messianic Bible (WMB)

9. and he lived eastward even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

10. In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead.

11. The sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah:

12. Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan.

13. Their brothers of their fathers’ houses: 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, chief of their fathers’ houses.

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 these were listed by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

18. The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred sixty, that were able to go out to war.

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

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