1 Chronicles 5:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

He was

Forasmuch

Birthright

And

Genesis 25:23

1 Samuel 16:6

Reckoned

Joshua 14:6

General references

Numbers 1:20

Deuteronomy 27:20

Bible References

He was

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

And Lea conceived and bare a son, and called his name Reuben, for she said, "The LORD hath looked upon my tribulation. And now my husband will love me."

These are the names of the children of Israel which came into Egypt, both Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's first son.

"Reuben, thou art mine eldest son, my might and the beginning of my strength, chief in receiving and chief in power.

These be the heads of their father's houses. The children of Reuben the eldest son of Israel are these: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, Carmi, these be the householders of Reuben.

"And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: in Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;

And Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi; and Dathan and Abiram, the son of Eliab; and On the son of Peleth, the sons of Reuben,

Reuben, the eldest son of Israel. The children of Reuben were, Hanoch, of whom cometh the kindred of the Hanochites; and of Pallu, cometh the kindred of the Palluites;

Forasmuch

And it chanced, as Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and it came to Israel's ear. The sons of Jacob were twelve in number.

As unstable as water wast thou: thou shalt therefore not be the chiefest, for thou wentest up upon thy father's bed, and then defiledest thou my couch with going up.

The privities of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover, for they are thy father's privities.

If a man lie with his father's wife and uncover his father's privities, they shall both die for it, their blood be upon their heads.

"'Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, because he hath opened his father's covering.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

There goeth a common saying that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not once named among the gentiles: that one should have his father's wife.

Birthright

And Hosah of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief, yet he was not the eldest, but his father made him the chiefest.

And he blessed Joseph saying, "God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, and the God which hath fed me all my life long unto this day;

But he shall know the son of the hated for his firstborn, that he give him double of all that he hath. For he is the first of his strength, and to him belongeth the right of the firstbornship.

which is the image of the invisible God, first begotten of all creatures:

And

And the LORD said unto her, "There are two manner of people in thy womb, and two nations shall spring out of thy bowels, and the one nation shall be mightier than the other and the eldest shall be servant unto the younger."

And when they were come, he looked on Eliab and said, "The LORD's anointed is before him."

Reckoned

And the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said unto him, "Thou knowest what the LORD said unto Moses the man of God, about me and thee in Kadesh Barnea.

General references

And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, in their generations, kindreds and houses of their fathers - when they were numbered every man by name, all that were males from twenty years and above, as many as were able to go forth in war -

"'Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, because he hath opened his father's covering.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'