Bible Verses About The Tribe Of Reuben

But if they do not arm themselves and go across with you, then they must accept their possession among you in the land of Canaan.”

The Gadites and Reubenites replied, “As the LORD has spoken to your servants, so we will do.

We will cross over into the land of Canaan armed before the LORD, that we may have our inheritance on this side of the Jordan.”

So Moses gave to the Gadites, to the Reubenites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the land including its cities and the territory surrounding them.

The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

as well as Nebo and Baal-meon (whose names were changed), and Sibmah. And they renamed the cities they rebuilt.

and to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.

The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

At that time I commanded you: “The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your men of valor are to cross over, armed for battle, ahead of your brothers, the Israelites.

But your wives, your children, and your livestock—I know that you have much livestock—may remain in the cities I have given you,

until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and they too have taken possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them across the Jordan. Then each of you may return to the possession I have given you.”

And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to deliver the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

Let Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few.”

This is what Moses had given to the clans of the tribe of Reuben:

The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, to the whole plateau beyond Medeba,

to Heshbon and all its cities on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,

Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth-shahar on the hill in the valley,

Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth—

all the cities of the plateau and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon until Moses killed him and the chiefs of Midian (Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba), the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.

The Israelites also killed the diviner Balaam son of Beor along with the others they put to the sword.

And the border of the Reubenites was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the clans of the Reubenites, including the cities and villages.

Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh

and told them, “You have done all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and you have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you.

All this time you have not deserted your brothers, up to this very day, but have kept the charge given you by the LORD your God.