12. Joel was the first, Shapham the second, and Janai governed Bashan.
13. Their relatives according to their households: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber—seven in all.
14. This was the family of Abihail son of Huri son of Jaroah son of Gilead son of Michael son of Jeshishai son of Jahdo son of Buz.
15. Ahi, Abdiel’s son and Guni’s grandson, was the head of their household.
16. They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and as far as the boundaries of all the open lands of Sharon.
17. They were all listed in the records in the days of Judah’s King Jotham and Israel’s King Jeroboam.
18. The Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh were warriors who carried shield and sword, drew the bow, and were trained for war—44,760 ready for military service.
19. When they waged war on the Hagrites (the Jeturites, the Naphishites, and the Nodabites),
20. they received help against them. The Hagrites and all who were with them were handed over to them, because they cried out to God in battle. God granted their prayer because they trusted in him.
21. They seized their livestock: 50,000 of their camels, 250,000 sheep and goats, 2,000 donkeys, and 100,000 captives.
22. Many died, because God fought the battle. They lived there in place of the inhabitants until the exile.
23. The members of half the tribe of Manasseh lived in the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. They were very numerous.
24. These were the heads of their households:Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel—mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their households.
25. But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and faithlessly followed the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.
26. As a result, Israel’s God stirred up the spirit of Assyria’s King Pul, otherwise known as Assyria’s King Tilgath-pilneser, who led the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh into exile, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the Gozan River, where they remain to this day.