1 Chronicles 5:23-26

The Half-Tribe of Manasseh

23 The people of the half-tribe of Manasseh were numerous; they settled in the land from Bashan to Baal Hermon, that is, to Senir (Mount Hermon).

24 These were the heads of their families: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah and Jahdiel. They were brave warriors, famous men, and heads of their families.

25 But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and prostituted themselves to 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 Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria), who took the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. He took them to Halah, Habor, Hara and the river of Gozan, where they are to this day.

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.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Chronicles 7:14
• 2. S Deuteronomy 3:8,9; Song of Songs 4:8
• 3. Deuteronomy 32:15-18; 2 Kings 17:7; 1 Chronicles 9:1; 1 Chronicles 10:13; 2 Chronicles 12:2; 2 Chronicles 26:16; 2 Chronicles 28:19; 2 Chronicles 29:6; 2 Chronicles 30:7; 2 Chronicles 36:14
• 4. S Exodus 34:15; S Leviticus 18:3
• 5. Isaiah 37:7
• 6. S 2 Kings 15:19
• 7. S ver 6; S 2 Kings 15:29
• 8. 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11