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REUBEN @ son of Jacob and Leah- kjv@Genesis:29:32; kjv@Genesis:30:14; kjv@Genesis:35:22; kjv@Genesis:37:21; kjv@Genesis:42:22,37; kjv@Genesis:49:3

smith:

REUBEN - R>@ - (behold a son), Jacob’s firstborn Child, kjv@Genesis:29:32) the son of Leah. (B.C. 1753.) The notices of the patriarch Reuben give, on the whole a favorable view of his disposition. To him and him alone the preservation of Joseph’s life appears to have been due and afterward he becomes responsible for his safety. kjv@Genesis:37:18-30 kjv@Genesis:42:37) Of the repulsive crime which mars his history, and which turned the blessing of his dying father into a curse
his adulterous connection with Bilhah
we know from the Scriptures only the fact. kjv@Genesis:35:22) He was of an ardent, impetuous, unbalanced but not ungenerous nature; not crafty and cruel, as were Simeon and Levi, but rather, to use the metaphor of the dying patriarch, boiling up like a vessel of water over a rapid wood fire, and as quickly subsiding when the fuel was withdrawn. At the time of the migration into Egypt, Reuben’s sons were four. kjv@Genesis:46:9; kjv@1Chronicles:5:3) The census at Mount Sinai, kjv@Numbers:1:20-21 kjv@Numbers:2:11) shows that at the exodus the men of the tribe above twenty years of age and fit for active warlike service numbered 46,600. The Reubenites maintained the ancient calling of their forefathers. Their cattle accompanied them in their flight from Egypt. kjv@Exodus:12:38) Territory of the tribe .
The portion of the promised land selected by Reuben had the special name of "the Mishor," with reference possibly to its evenness. Under its modern name of the Belka it is still esteemed beyond all others by the Arab sheep-masters. It was a fine pasture-land east of the Jordan, lying between the river Arnon on the south and Gilead on the north. Though the Israelites all aided the Reubenites in conquering the land, and they in return helped their brothers to secure their own possessions, still there was always afterward a bar, a difference in feeling and habits, between the eastern and western tribes. The pile of stones which they erected on the west bank of the Jordan to mark their boundary was erected in accordance with the unalterable habits of Bedouin tribes both before and since. This act was completely misunderstood and was construed into an attempt to set up a rival altar to that of the sacred tent. No Judge, no prophet, no hero of the tribe of Reuben is handed down to us. The Reubenites disliked war clinging to their fields and pastures even when their brethren were in great distress. Being remote from the seat of the national government and of the national religion, it is not to be wondered at that the Reubenites relinquished the faith of Jehovah. The last historical notice which we possess of them, while it records this fact, records also as its natural consequence that they and the Gadites and the half-tribe Manasseh were carried off by Pul and Tiglath-pileser. ( kjv@1Chronicles:5:26)

easton:

Reuben @ behold a son!, the eldest son of Jacob and Leah kjv@Genesis:29:32). His sinful conduct, referred to in kjv@Genesis:35:22, brought down upon him his dying father's malediction (48:4). He showed kindness to Joseph, and was the means of saving his life when his other brothers would have put him to death (37:21-22). It was he also who pledged his life and the life of his sons when Jacob was unwilling to let Benjamin go down into Egypt. After Jacob and his family went down into Egypt (46:8) no further mention is made of Reuben beyond what is recorded in ch. 49:3-4.

Reuben, Tribe of @ at the Exodus numbered 46,500 male adults, from twenty years old and upwards kjv@Numbers:1:20-21), and at the close of the wilderness wanderings they numbered only 43,730 (26:7). This tribe united with that of Gad in asking permission to settle in the "land of Gilead," "on the other side of Jordan" (32:1-5). The lot assigned to Reuben was the smallest of the lots given to the trans
- Jordanic tribes. It extended from the Arnon, in the south along the coast of the Dead Sea to its northern end, where the Jordan flows into it kjv@Joshua:13:15-21, 23). It thus embraced the original kingdom of Sihon. Reuben is "to the eastern tribes what Simeon is to the western. 'Unstable as water,' he vanishes away into a mere Arabian tribe. 'His men are few;' it is all he can do 'to live and not die.' We hear of nothing beyond the multiplication of their cattle in the land of Gilead, their spoils of 'camels fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand' ( kjv@1Chronicles:5:9-10, 20, 21). In the great struggles of the nation he never took part. The complaint against him in the song of Deborah is the summary of his whole history. 'By the streams of Reuben,' i.e., by the fresh streams which descend from the eastern hills into the Jordan and the Dead Sea, on whose banks the Bedouin chiefs met then as now to debate, in the 'streams' of Reuben great were the 'desires'", i.e., resolutions which were never carried out, the people idly resting among their flocks as if it were a time of peace kjv@Judges:5:15-16). Stanley's Sinai and Palestine. All the three tribes on the east of Jordan at length fell into complete apostasy, and the time of retribution came. God "stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria," to carry them away, the first of the tribes, into captivity ( kjv@1Chronicles:5:25-26).

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torrey:

Reuben, the Tribe Of @ Descended from Jacob's first son kjv@Genesis:29:32
Predictions respecting kjv@Genesis:49:4 kjv@Deuteronomy:33:6
Persons selected from
To number the people kjv@Numbers:1:5
To spy out the land kjv@Numbers:13:4
Strength of, on leaving Egypt kjv@Numbers:1:20 kjv@Numbers:1:21
Led the second division of Israel in their journey's kjv@Numbers:10:18
Encamped with its standard south of the tabernacle kjv@Numbers:2:10
Offering of, at the dedication kjv@Numbers:7:30-35
Families of kjv@Numbers:26:5 kjv@Numbers:26:6 kjv@Numbers:26:8 kjv@Numbers:26:9
Obtained inheritance east of Jordan on condition of helping to conquer Canaan kjv@Numbers:32:1-33 kjv@Deuteronomy:3:18-20
Bounds of their inheritance kjv@Deuteronomy:3:16 kjv@Deuteronomy:3:17 kjv@Joshua:13:15-23
Strength of, at the time of receiving their inheritance kjv@Numbers:26:7
Cities built by kjv@Numbers:32:37 kjv@Numbers:32:38
On Ebal, said amen to the curses kjv@Deuteronomy:27:13
Dismissed by Joshua after the conquest of Canaan kjv@Joshua:22:1-9
Assisted in building the altar of witness which offended the other tribes kjv@Joshua:22:10-29
Did not assist against Sisera kjv@Judges:5:15 kjv@Judges:5:16
Some of, at David's coronation kjv@1Chronicles:12:37 kjv@1Chronicles:12:38
Officers appointed over, by David kjv@1Chronicles:26:32 kjv@1Chronicles:27:16
Took land of the Hagarites kjv@1Chronicles:5:10 kjv@1Chronicles:5:18-22
Invaded and conquered by Hazael king of Syria kjv@2Kings:10:32 kjv@2Kings:10:33
Carried away by Tiglathpileser kjv@2Kings:15:29 kjv@1Chronicles:5:6 kjv@1Chronicles:5:26
Remarkable persons of
Dathan, Abiram, and On kjv@Numbers:16:1 kjv@Numbers:26:9 kjv@Numbers:26:10
Adina &:c kjv@1Chronicles:11:42

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REUBEN @
- Son of Jacob kjv@Genesis:29:32; kjv@1Chronicles:2:1
- Brings mandrakes (an aphrodisiac) to his mother kjv@Genesis:30:14
- Commits incest with one of his father's concubines, and, in consequence, forfeits his birthright kjv@Genesis:35:22; kjv@Genesis:49:4; kjv@1Chronicles:5:1
- Adroitly seeks to save Joseph from the conspiracy of his brothers kjv@Genesis:37:21-30; kjv@Genesis:42:22
- Jacob's prophetic benediction upon kjv@Genesis:49:3-4
- His children kjv@Genesis:46:9; kjv@Exodus:6:14; kjv@1Chronicles:5:3-6; kjv@Numbers:16:1

REUBENITES @ -(The descendants of Reuben)
- Military enrollment of, at Mount Sinai kjv@Numbers:1:20-21
- Military enrollment of, in Moab kjv@Numbers:26:7
- Place of, in camping and marching kjv@Numbers:2:10
- Standard of kjv@Numbers:10:18
- Have their inheritance east of the Jordan River kjv@Numbers:32; Deuteronomy:3:1-20; kjv@Joshua:13:15-23; kjv@Joshua:18:7
- Assist the other tribes in conquest of the region west of the Jordan River kjv@Joshua:1:12-18; kjv@Joshua:22:1-6
- Unite with the other tribes in building a monument to signify the unity of the tribes on the east of the Jordan River with the tribes on the west of the river; the monument misunderstood; the subsequent explanation and reconciliation kjv@Joshua:22:10-34
- Reproached by Deborah kjv@Judges:5:15-16
- Taken captive into Assyria kjv@2Kings:15:29; kjv@1Chronicles:5:26
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See ISRAEL

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hitchcock:

kjv@STRING:Reuben <HITCHCOCK>@ who sees the son; the vision of the son - HITCHCOCK-R

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REUBEN @ son of Jacob and Leah- kjv@Genesis:29:32; kjv@Genesis:30:14; kjv@Genesis:35:22; kjv@Genesis:37:21; kjv@Genesis:42:22,37; kjv@Genesis:49:3

strongs:

H7205 <STRHEB>@ ראוּבן re'ûbên reh-oo-bane' From the imperative of H7200 and H1121; see ye a son; {Reuben} a son of Jacob: - Reuben.

H7206 <STRHEB>@ ראוּבני re'ûbênîy reh-oo-bay-nee' Patronymic from H7205; a Reubenite or descendant of Reuben: - children of {Reuben} Reubenites.

G4502 <STRGRK>@ Ῥουβήν Rhoubēn hroo-bane' Of Hebrew origin [H7205]; Ruben (that is Reuben) an Israelite: - Reuben.