And Leah said, “Happy am I! For the women will call me happy”; so she named him Asher.
2 Samuel 2:9 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional He made him king over Gilead, the Ashurites, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, and over all Israel. Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And he made him king over Gilead, the Ashurites, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, and all Israel. American Standard Version (1901) and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel. Common English Bible There he made him king over Gilead, the Geshurites, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin—over all Israel. Catholic Public Domain Version And he appointed him as king over Gilead, and over Geshuri, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all of Israel. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And made him king over Galaad, and, over Gessuri, and over Jezrahel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel. |
And Leah said, “Happy am I! For the women will call me happy”; so she named him Asher.
Ishbaal, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
While there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was making himself strong in the house of Saul.
Of the Benjaminites, the kindred of Saul, three thousand, of whom the majority had continued to keep their allegiance to the house of Saul.
Of the Ephraimites, twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty warriors, notables in their ancestral houses.
Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter.
The descendants of Asher, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war:
The territory of the Ephraimites by their families was as follows: the boundary of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon,
From Tappuah the boundary goes westward to the Wadi Kanah, and ends at the sea. Such is the inheritance of the tribe of the Ephraimites by their families,
together with the towns that were set apart for the Ephraimites within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages.
Then allotment was made to the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a warrior.
The lot of the tribe of Benjamin according to its families came up, and the territory allotted to it fell between the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Joseph.
The Jordan forms its boundary on the eastern side. This is the inheritance of the tribe of Benjamin, according to its families, boundary by boundary all around.
So the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home, parting from the Israelites at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, their own land of which they had taken possession by command of the Lord through Moses.
but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.
Now the Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek, while the Israelites were encamped by the fountain that is in Jezreel.