Genesis 49:4 Cross References - MKJV

⁴ Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it. He went up to my couch.

²² And it happened when Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine. And Israel heard it. And the sons of Jacob were twelve:

⁸ And these were the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's first-born.

¹ And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle. And when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, behold, the place was a place for cattle. ² And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the priest, and to the rulers of the congregation, saying, ³ Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon, ⁴ the land which Jehovah struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle. ⁵ And, they said, If we have found grace in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; do not bring us over Jordan. ⁶ And Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to war, and shall you sit here? ⁷ And why do you break the heart of the sons of Israel from going over into the land which Jehovah has given them? ⁸ So your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. ⁹ For when they went up into the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they broke the hearts of the sons of Israel, so that they should not go into the land which Jehovah had given them. ¹⁰ And Jehovah's anger was kindled at that day, and He swore, saying, ¹¹ Surely, none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and up, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not fully followed Me, ¹² except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have fully followed Jehovah. ¹³ And Jehovah's anger was kindled against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years until all the generation which had done evil in the sight of Jehovah was destroyed. ¹⁴ And behold, you are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to add still more to the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel. ¹⁵ For if you turn away from after Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness. And you shall destroy all this people. ¹⁶ And they came near to him and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones, ¹⁷ but we ourselves will go ready armed before the sons of Israel until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall live in the fenced cities because of those who live in the land. ¹⁸ We will not return to our houses until the sons of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. ¹⁹ For we will not inherit with them on the other side of Jordan, or forward, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this side of Jordan, eastward. ²⁰ And Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will go armed before Jehovah to war, ²¹ and all of you will go armed over Jordan before Jehovah until He has driven out His enemies from before Him, ²² and the land is subdued before Jehovah, then afterwards you shall return and be guiltless before Jehovah and before Israel. And this land shall be your possession before Jehovah. ²³ But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Jehovah. And be sure your sin will find you out. ²⁴ Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do that which has come out of your mouth. ²⁵ And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben spoke to Moses saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands. ²⁶ Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead. ²⁷ But your servants will go over, every man armed for war, before Jehovah to battle, as my lord says. ²⁸ So regarding them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel. ²⁹ And Moses said to them, If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben will go with you over Jordan, each armed to battle before Jehovah, and the land shall be humbled before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession. ³⁰ But if they will not go over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan. ³¹ And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, saying, As Jehovah has said to your servants, so we will do. ³² We will go over armed before Jehovah into the land of Canaan, so that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours. ³³ And Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, and to the half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities in the borders, the cities of the land all around. ³⁴ And the sons of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer, ³⁵ and Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah, ³⁶ and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified cities. And they built folds for sheep. ³⁷ And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjath-aim, ³⁸ and Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names being changed) and Sibmah, and they gave other names to the cities which they built. ³⁹ And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and put out the Amorite who was in it. ⁴⁰ And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he lived in it. ⁴¹ And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns of it, and called them Towns of Jair. ⁴² And Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah after his own name.

²¹ And you shall not lust after your neighbor's wife, nor shall you covet your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is your neighbor's.

²⁰ Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he uncovers his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

⁶ Let Reuben live and not die, and let not his men be few.

¹ And the sons of Reuben, the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born; but since he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and the genealogy is not to be counted according to the birthright;

¹ On the whole it is reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the nations, so as one to have his father's wife.

⁶ But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing. For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. ⁷ For do not let that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord; ⁸ he is a double-minded man, not dependable in all his ways.

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery and never ceasing from sin, alluring unstable souls, having a heart exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children

¹⁶ as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction).