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.

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. 5:23 Deut. 3:9; Ezek. 27:5
• 2. 5:25 See Ex. 34:15
• 3. 5:25 2 Kgs. 17:7
• 4. 5:26 2 Kgs. 15:19
• 5. 5:26 See ver. 6
• 6. 5:26 2 Kgs. 17:6; 18:11
• 7. 5:26 2 Kgs. 17:6; 18:11
• 8. 5:26 2 Kgs. 17:6; 18:11

Footnotes

• [a] 5:24 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew 'and Epher'