1 Chronicles 5:25

25 They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.

1 Chronicles 5:25 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 5:25

And they transgressed against the God their fathers
Against his law, will, word, and ordinances, not only the half tribe of Manasseh, hut the Reubenites and Gadites also:

and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God
destroyed before them;
that is, committed idolatry, which is spiritual fornication or whoredom; worshipped the idols either of the Amorites, who were destroyed by the Lord to make way for their first settlement; or of the Ishmaelites, whom they conquered, and whose land they dwelt in to the captivity.

1 Chronicles 5:25 In-Context

23 The children of the half-tribe of Menashsheh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Ba`al-Hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon.

24 These were the heads of their fathers' houses: even `Efer, and Yish`i, and Eli'el, and `Azri'el, and Yirmeyahu, and Hodavyah, and Yachdi'el, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.

25 They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.

26 The God of Yisra'el stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Ashshur, and the spirit of Tilgat-Pilne'eser king of Ashshur, and he carried them away, even the Re'uveni, and the Gadi, and the half-tribe of Menashsheh, and brought them to Halach, and Havor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.