1 Chronicles 5:21-26

21 They took away their cattle: their 50,000 * camels, 250,000 * * sheep, 2,000 donkeys; and 100,000 * men *.

22 For many fell slain, because ¹the war was of God. And ²they settled in their place until the ³exile.

23 Now the sons of the half-tribe * of Manasseh lived in the land; from Bashan to Baal-hermon and ⁴Senir and Mount Hermon they were numerous.

24 These were the heads of their fathers' households, even Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers' households.

25 But they ⁵acted treacherously against the God of their fathers and ⁶played the harlot ⁷after 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 ⁸Pul, king of Assyria, even the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he ⁹carried them away into exile, namely the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe * of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara and to the river of Gozan, to this day.

1 Chronicles 5:21-26 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. Joshua 23:10; 2 Chronicles 32:8; Romans 8:31
• 2. 1 Chronicles 4:41
• 3. 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 17:6
• 4. Deuteronomy 3:9
• 5. Deuteronomy 32:15-18
• 6. Exodus 34:15
• 7. 2 Kings 17:7
• 8. 2 Kings 15:19, 29; 2 Chronicles 28:20
• 9. 2 Kings 17:6

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "souls of men"
• [b] In 2 Kin 15:29, "Tiglath-pileser"