1 Chronicles 5:23-26

The Half-Tribe of Manasseh

5:23 The half-tribe of Manasseh settled in the land from Bashan as far as Baal Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. They grew in number.

5:24 These were the leaders of their families: ¹ 

Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel. They were skilled warriors, men of reputation, ²  and leaders of their families. 5:25 But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors ³  and worshiped instead ⁴  the gods of the native peoples ⁵  whom God had destroyed before them. 5:26 So the God of Israel stirred up ⁶  King Pul of Assyria (that is, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria), ⁷  and he carried away the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh and took them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this very day.

[5:24]  ¹ tn Heb “and these [were] the heads of the house of their fathers.”

[5:24]  ² tn Heb “men of names.”

[5:25]  ³ tn Heb “fathers.”

[5:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “prostituted themselves after.”

[5:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “the peoples of the land.”

[5:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “stirred up the spirit of.”

[5:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria.” “Pul” and “Tilgath-pilneser” were names of the same Assyrian ruler, more commonly known as Tiglath-pileser (cf. 2 Kgs 15:29).