Bible Verses About Reubenites

Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath given you, and they also possess the land which the Lord your God will give them: and so you shall return into the land of your possession, and you shall dwell in it, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.

And they made answer to Joshua, and said: All that thou hast commanded us, we will do: and whither soever thou shalt send us, we will go.

As we obeyed Moses in all things, so will we obey thee also: only be the Lord thy God with thee, as he was with Moses.

He that shall gainsay thy mouth, and not obey all thy words, that thou shalt command him, let him die: only take thou courage, and do manfully.

And Moses gave a possession to the children of Ruben according to their kindreds.

And their border was from Aroer, which is on the bank of the torrent Arnon, and in the midst of the valley of the same torrent: all the plain, that leadeth to Medaba,

And Hesebon, and all their villages, which are in the plains. Dibon also, and Bamothbaal, and the town of Baalmaon,

And Jassa, and Cidimoth, and Mephaath,

And Cariathaim, and Sabama, and Sarathasar in the mountain of the valley.

Bethphogor and Asedoth, Phasga and Bethiesimoth,

And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdoms of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that reigned in Hesebon, whom Moses slew with the princes of Madian: Hevi, and Recem, and Sur and Hur, and Rebe, dukes of Sehon inhabitants of the land.

Balaam also the son of Beor the soothsayer, the children of Israel slew with the sword among the rest that were slain.

And the river Jordan was the border of the children of Ruben. This is the possession of the Rubenites, by their kindreds, of cities and villages.

For the Levites have no part among you, but the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance. And Gad and Ruben, and the half tribe of Manasses have already received their possessions beyond the Jordan eastward: which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.

At the same time Joshua called the Rubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses,

And said to them: You have done all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you: you have also obeyed me in all things,

Neither have you left your brethren this long time, until this present day, keeping the commandment of the Lord your God.

Therefore as the Lord your God hath given your brethren rest and peace, as he promised: return, and go to your dwellings, and to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan:

Yet so that you observe attentively, and in work fulfil the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you: that you love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, and keep all his commandments, and cleave to him, and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul.

And Joshua blessed them, and sent them away, and they returned to their dwellings.

And when they were come to banks of the Jordan, in the land of Chanaan, they built an altar immensely great near the Jordan.

And when the children of Israel had heard of it, and certain messengers brought them an account that the children of Ruben, and of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses had built an altar in the land of Chanaan, upon the banks of the Jordan, over against the children of Israel:

They all assembled in Silo, to go up and fight against them.

And in the mean time they sent to them into the land of Galaad, Phinees the son of Eleazar the priest,

And ten princes with him, one of every tribe.