Genesis 49:4

¹Uncontrolled as water, you shall not have preeminence,

^aBecause you went up to your father’s bed;

Then you defiled it—he went up to my couch.

1 Chronicles 5:1

Sons of Reuben

Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for ^ahe was the firstborn, but because ^bhe profaned his father’s bed, ^chis birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; so that he is not recorded in the genealogy according to the birthright.

1 Samuel 13:12-14

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12 therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not entreated the favor of Yahweh.’ So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering.” 13 And Samuel said to Saul, “^aYou have acted foolishly; ^byou have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which He commanded you, for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom ¹over Israel ^cforever. 14 But ^anow your kingdom shall not endure. ^bYahweh has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him as ruler over His people because you have not kept what Yahweh commanded you.”