Of the Chevroni was Yeriyah the chief, even of the Chevroni, according to their generations by fathers' [houses]. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valor at Ya`zer of Gil`ad.
With more than the weeping of Ya`zer will I weep for you, vine of Sivmah: your branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Ya`zer: on your summer fruits and on your vintage the destroyer is fallen.
Now the children of Re'uven and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock: and when they saw the land of Ya`zer, and the land of Gil`ad, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;
and all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sichon king of the Amori, who reigned in Cheshbon, whom Moshe struck with the chiefs of Midyan, Evi, and Rekem, and Tzur, and Chur, and Reva, the princes of Sichon, who lived in the land.
All [these were] the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.