Bible Verses About The Tribe Of Reuben

But if they do not cross with you armed, they are to possess land along with you in Kena'an."

The descendants of Gad and of Re'uven answered, "We will do as ADONAI has said to your servants.

We will cross over into the land of Kena'an armed before ADONAI, and the land we will possess for inheritance will be on this side of the Yarden."

So Moshe gave the descendants of Gad and of Re'uven, and also to the half-tribe of M'nasheh the son of Yosef, the kingdom of Sichon king of the Emori and the kingdom of 'Og king of Bashan - the country and its cities within its borders, along with their surrounding towns.

The descendants of Re'uven built Heshbon, El'aleh, Kiryatayim,

N'vo, Ba'al-M'on (these names have been changed) and Sivmah; they renamed the cities they built.

and to the Re'uveni and the Gadi I gave the territory from Gil'ad to the Arnon Valley, with the middle of the valley as the border, as far as the Yabok River, which is the border with the people of 'Amon;

the 'Aravah too, the Yarden being its border, from Kinneret to the Sea of the 'Aravah, the Dead Sea, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

"At that time I gave you this order: 'ADONAI your God has given you this land to possess. But all of you who are fit to fight must cross over, armed, ahead of your brothers the people of Isra'el.

Your wives, your little ones and your livestock - I know you have much livestock - will stay in your cities which I have given you,

until ADONAI allows your brothers to rest, as he has allowed you; and they too take possession of the land ADONAI your God is giving them on the west side of the Yarden. At that point you will return, each man to his own possession which I have given you.'

while these are to stand on Mount 'Eival for the curse: Re'uven, Gad, Asher, Z'vulun, Dan and Naftali.

"Let Re'uven live and not die out, even though his numbers grow few."

Moshe gave land to the tribe of the descendants of Re'uven by clans.

Their territory included 'Aro'er on the edge of the Arnon Valley, the city in the middle of the valley, all the plateau near Meidva,

Heshbon and its villages on the plateau, Divon, Bamot-Ba'al, Beit-Ba'al-M'on,

Yahatz, K'demot, Mefa'at,

Kiryatayim, Sivmah, Tzeret-Shachar at the top of the valley,

Beit-P'or, the slopes of Pisgah, Beit-Yeshimot,

all the cities of the plateau - all the kingdom of Sichon king of the Emori, who ruled in Heshbon. Moshe defeated him with the chiefs of Midyan, along with Evi, Rekem, Tzur, Hur and Reva the princes of Sichon who lived in the land.

Along with the others the people of Isra'el killed with the sword, they also struck down Bil'am the son of B'or, who practiced divination.

The Yarden formed the border for the descendants of Re'uven. This was the inheritance of the descendants of Re'uven by clans, with its cities and villages.

Then Y'hoshua called the Re'uveni, the Gadi and the half-tribe of M'nasheh,

and said to them, "You have done everything Moshe the servant of ADONAI ordered you to do and heeded what I said in all the orders I gave you.

All this time you have not abandoned your kinsmen but have obeyed your commission, as ADONAI your God ordered.