3 The family of Reuben, Israel’s oldest son: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
4 Joel’s family: his son Shemaiah, his son Gog, his son Shimei,
5 his son Micah, his son Reaiah, his son Baal,
6 and his son Beerah, whom Assyria’s King Tilgath-pilneser carried away into exile. He was a chief of the Reubenites.
7 His relatives, by their clans when their genealogy was listed in the records, were: Jeiel the first; Zechariah;
8 and Bela, Azaz’s son, Shema’s grandson, and Joel’s great-grandson.They lived in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-meon.
9 They also settled in the east as far as the edge of the desert that stretches to the Euphrates River, because their livestock had increased in the land of Gilead.