REUBEN
behold a son!, the eldest son of Jacob and Leah (Gen. 29:32). His sinful conduct, referred to in Gen. 35:22, Gen. 35: brought down upon him his dying father's malediction (8:4). 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, 37:22). It was he also who pledged his life and the life of his sons when Jacob was unwilling t......
REUBEN, TRIBE OF
at the Exodus numbered 46,500 male adults, from twenty years old and upwards (Num. 1:20, Num. 1: 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). The lot assigned to Reuben was the smallest of the lots given to the trans-Jordanic tribe......