1 Chronicles 5:23-26

The Half-Tribe of Manasseh

23 The members of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land. They were very numerous from Bashan to Baal-hermon, ¹Senir, and Mount Hermon.

24 These were the heads of their fathers' houses: Epher,^[a] Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.

25 But they broke faith with the God of their fathers, and ²whored ³after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

26 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of ⁴Pul king of Assyria, the spirit of ⁵Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them ⁶to Halah, ⁷Habor, Hara, and ⁸the river Gozan, to this day.

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1 Chronicles 5:23-26 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 5

This chapter relates the genealogy of the tribes that lived on the other side Jordan; of the Reubenites, 1Ch 5:1-10, of the Gadites, 1Ch 5:11-17 of the half tribe of Manasseh, 1Ch 5:23,24 and of their war with the Hagarites, in conjunction with each other, and their conquest of them, 1Ch 5:18-22 and who for their sins were all carried captive by the king of Assyria, 1Ch 5:25,26.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 8

1. Deuteronomy 3:9; Ezekiel 27:5
2. See Exodus 34:15
3. 2 Kings 17:7
4. 2 Kings 15:19
5. See ver. 6
6. 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11
7. 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11
8. 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11

Footnotes 1

[a]. Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew and Epher

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