Map of the twelve tribes of Israel; Reuben's supposed territory is shaded pale green. However, archeological scholars generally agree that Joshua is not a reliable source for reconstructing the history of the period it describes.[1]
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Hebrew: רְאוּבֵן
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Reuben
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Detailed map of Reuben (Thomas Fuller, 1869; east is at the top)
According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Reuben (Hebrew: רְאוּבֵן, Modern: Rəʼūven, Tiberian: Rəʼūḇēn) was one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Unlike the majority of the tribes, the land of Reuben, along with that of Gad and half of Manasseh, was on the eastern side of the Jordan and shared a border with Moab. According to the biblical narrative, the Tribe of Reuben descended from Reuben, the eldest son of the patriarch Jacob. Reuben, along with nine other tribes, is reckoned by the Bible as part of the northern kingdom of Israel, and disappears from history with the demise of that kingdom in c. 723 BC.
^Ann E. Killebrew (October 2005). Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, and Early Israel, 1300–1100 B.C.E. Society of Biblical Lit. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-58983-097-4.
the TribeofReuben (Hebrew: רְאוּבֵן, Modern: Rəʼūven, Tiberian: Rəʼūḇēn) was one of the twelve tribesof Israel. Unlike the majority of the tribes, the...
twelve sons form the basis for the twelve tribesof Israel, listed in the order from oldest to youngest: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad...
king of Bashan. After the two kings were defeated, the region of Gilead was allotted by Moses to the tribesof Gad, Reuben, and the eastern half of Manasseh...
Hanoch may refer to: Hanoch, the son ofReuben and head of the Hanochite branch of the tribeofReuben (Numbers 26:5) Hanoch Albeck (1890–1972), Israeli...
the tribesofReuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Manasseh, and Ephraim — all but Judah, Benjamin, and some members of the priestly...
territory of the Tribeof Gad were Ramoth, Jaezer, Aroer, and Dibon, though some of these are marked in Joshua 13:15–16 as belonging to Reuben. The location...
prince of the house of Zebulun according to Numbers 1:9. Eliab was the son of Pallu and the father of Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram, of the house ofReuben, according...
east of the Jordan (tribesofReuben, Gad and East Manasseh in Gilead), including the desert outposts of Jetur, Naphish and Nodab. The population of these...
6:17; Numbers 3:18; 1 Chronicles 6:17). The family of the Shimeites, as a branch of the tribeof Levi, is mentioned in Numbers 3:18, 21; 1 Chronicles...
in the Old Testament as a participant of the Exodus. He was a son of Eliab, the son of Pallu, the son ofReuben. Together with his brother Abiram, the...
father is exalted"), is the name of two people in the Old Testament. One was a member of the TribeofReuben, the son of Eliab, who, along with his brother...
names of the twelve spies were: Shammua, son of Zaccur, from the tribeofReuben Shaphat, son of Hori, from the tribeof Simeon Caleb, son of Jephunneh...
to the Promised Land, and was assigned to the tribeofReuben; afterwards it was given to the Tribeof Gad and became a Levitical city for the Merarites...
birth-land. Joel: said to be of the TribeofReuben, born and buried in Bethomoron. Obadiah: said to be born in Beth-acharam in the land of Sichem. Jonah: said...
Regarding the tribeofReuben, there is only a prayer: "May Reuben live and not die, / Though few be his numbers." (verse 6). The tribeof Simeon seems...
clans of the Tribeof Judah. In a nearby passage, another Reaiah is listed as a "son" of Joel, who is placed in a genealogy of the TribeofReuben, but...
קְדֵמוֹת) was a city ofReuben, assigned to the Levites of the family of Merari (Joshua 13:18). It lay not far north-east of Dibon-gad, east of the Dead Sea....
allotment ofReuben, but was built up by the Gadites during the period of Israelite conquest. This is very probably Khirbat Ataruz, north of Wadi Heidan...
from Reuben due to his sinning against his father Jacob. However, according to the Targum to Books of Chronicles, individuals from the TribeofReuben (the...
Jordan to the tribesofReuben and Gad and the half-tribeof Manasseh, and then describes how Joshua divided the newly conquered land of Canaan into parcels...
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