5:23 The half-tribe of Manasseh settled in the land from Bashan as far as Baal Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. They grew in number.
5:24 These were the leaders of their families: 1
Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel. They were skilled warriors, men of reputation, 2 and leaders of their families. 5:25 But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors 3 and worshiped instead 4 the gods of the native peoples 5 whom God had destroyed before them. 5:26 So the God of Israel stirred up 6 King Pul of Assyria (that is, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria), 7 and he carried away the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh and took them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this very day.
1 tn Heb “and these [were] the heads of the house of their fathers.”
2 tn Heb “men of names.”
3 tn Heb “fathers.”
4 tn Heb “prostituted themselves after.”
5 tn Heb “the peoples of the land.”
6 tn Heb “stirred up the spirit of.”
7 tn Heb “and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria.” “Pul” and “Tilgath-pilneser” were names of the same Assyrian ruler, more commonly known as Tiglath-pileser (cf. 2 Kgs 15:29).