1 Chronicles 2:1

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Summary

1 Chronicles 2:1

These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

Israel

Genesis 32:28

Genesis 49:2

Reuben

General references

Exodus 1:1

Bible References

Israel

And He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”

“Gather together and hear, O sons of Jacob;
And listen to Israel (Jacob) your father.

Reuben

Leah conceived and gave birth to a son and named him Reuben (See, a son!), for she said, “Because the Lord has seen my humiliation and suffering; now my husband will love me [since I have given him a son].”

Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a son for Jacob.

And as her soul was departing, (for she died), she named him Ben-oni (son of my sorrow); but his father called him Benjamin (son of the right hand).

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.

“But unstable and reckless and boiling over like water [in sinful lust], you shall not excel or have the preeminence [of the firstborn],
Because you went up to your father’s bed [with Bilhah];
You defiled it—he went up to my couch.

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

These then are the names of the men who shall stand with you: from [the tribe of] Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;

These were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;

Reuben, the firstborn of Israel (Jacob), the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

Twelve thousand were sealed from the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand from the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand from the tribe of Gad,

General references

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; each came with his household: