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REUBEN , a tribe of See also:

Israel named after the eldest " son " of See also:Jacob and of Leah. Both the meaning of the name (see Gen. See also:xxix. 32) and the See also:history of the tribe are extremely obscure. In one version of the See also:story of See also:Joseph, Reuben appears in a some-what favourable See also:light (Gen. See also:xxxvii. 22, 29, xlii. 37), but in Gen. See also:xxxv. 22 he is charged with a See also:grave offence, which in Gen. xlix. 4 is given as a See also:reason why the tribe which called him See also:father did not take in See also:Hebrew history the See also:place proper to its seniority (cp. I Chron. v. 1). Dathan and Abiram were Reubenites (Num. xvi.; Deut. xi. 6), and in Deut. xxxiii.

6 the tribe appears as threatened with extinction. In Judg. v. 15 seq. it is described as a See also:

pastoral tribe which took no See also:share in the patriotic See also:movement under Barak and See also:Deborah. The See also:district' allotted to Reuben (Josh. xiii. 15–23; Num. xxxii. 37 seq.) is detailed in See also:late passages which have little See also:historical value for the See also:age to which they are attributed. The tribe is represented as settled E. of the See also:Jordan on the Moabite border, but no mention is made of it in the inscription of the Moabite See also:king Mesha (see Gan; See also:MOAB). The references to the tribe's See also:wars against Arabians (r Chron. v. 10, 18 sqq.) in the See also:time of See also:Saul have caused much fruitless See also:speculation. For mythological elements in the tribe's history, see especially E. Stucken, Mittheil. d. vorderasiat. Gesell.

(1902), pt. iv. pp. 46 sqq.; and for a full discussion of the biblical data, see H. W. See also:

Hogg, Ency. Bib. s.v., also E. See also:Meyer, See also:Die Israeliten and ihre Nachbarstlimme, pp. 530 sqq.

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