Exodus 1:2

World English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹ Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): ² Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, ³ Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, ⁴ Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. ⁵ All the souls who came out of the Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already. ⁶ Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation. ⁷ The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reuben: Genesis 35:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:13 - Thy servants Genesis 46:15 - Leah Genesis 46:25 - Bilhah Numbers 1:5 - Elizur 1 Chronicles 2:1 - Reuben Matthew 1:2 - Jacob begat Revelation 7:5 - tribe of Juda

Cross-References

Genesis 1:12
The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:14
God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

Job 26:7
He stretches out the north over empty space, And hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 26:14
Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"

Psalms 33:6
By the word of Yahweh were the heavens made, All the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Isaiah 45:18
For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am Yahweh; and there is no one else.

Nahum 2:10
She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah. The first sons of Jacob by Leah.