seekeroftruth
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1 Chronicles 5:23 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.
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.
This clarification is from the easy English commentary.
Moses gave the places called Gilead and Bashan beyond the river Jordan to the half tribe of Manasseh. They lived there and their land reached Mount Hermon. Baal Hermon, Senir and Mount Hermon are the names of three parts of the Mount Hermon range of mountains.
The tribes of Israel beyond the river Jordan were not loyal to God. He had helped them to defeat the people who had lived there before them. But they turned from the LORD their God to serve the false gods of those people. Because of this, God sent Pul to fight against them. So, the army of Assyria took these tribes into exile. There they remained and they were still there at the time of the writer of the Chronicles.
Pul was the private name of King Tiglath-Pileser the third. He ruled in Assyria from 745 to 727 BC.
The tribes of Israel beyond the river Jordan were not loyal to God. He had helped them to defeat the people who had lived there before them. But they turned from the LORD their God to serve the false gods of those people. Because of this, God sent Pul to fight against them. So, the army of Assyria took these tribes into exile. There they remained and they were still there at the time of the writer of the Chronicles.
Pul was the private name of King Tiglath-Pileser the third. He ruled in Assyria from 745 to 727 BC.
Manasseh was one of Joseph's sons. He took part of his dad's inheritance from Jacob [Israel]. When Moses and the rest of the twelve tribes left Egypt.... the place held by Joseph was taken by his sons. When the Israelites got to the Jordan... Manasseh said they liked on the east side. It wasn't Canaan but it was just dandy for them. They agreed to help the rest of the tribes drive the inhabitants out of Canaan [the promised land]... but when it was done... they settled back with their families on the other side of the river.
It's understandable, I guess, that they would loose or change their faith. It would have been quite a journey to the Temple in Jerusalem. It was easier to "visit" the other places of worship.... and since so many were jumping off that cliff or jumping on that bandwagon or falling off the God Centered wagon.... then it must be ok right? They heard over and over and over and over again that everyone else was doing it... so why wouldn't they.... if everyone else is worshiping Baal or throwing their babies on the white hot molech statue to burn to death.... then why shouldn't they????
Note.... they were sent into exile.... like their Heavenly Father caught them being stupid stubborn human magpies and He sent them into time out.... threw them out of their wonderful homes by the river .... handed out some touch love....
Biblestudytools.org compares the exile to divorce!
They lay upon the borders, and conversed most with the neighbouring nations, by which means they learned their idolatrous usages and transmitted the infection to the other tribes; for this God had a controversy with them. He was a husband to them, and no marvel that his jealousy burnt like fire when they went a whoring after other gods. Justly is a bill of divorce given to the adulteress. God stirred up the spirit of the kings of Assyria, first one and then another, against them, served his own purposes by the designs of those ambitious monarchs, employed them to chastise these revolters first, and, when that humbled them not, then wholly to root them out,. These tribes were first placed, and they were first displaced. They would have the best land, not considering that it lay most exposed. But those who are governed more by sense than by reason or faith in their choices may expect to fare accordingly.
Stupid Humans..... really expected to get away with it.... got used to it.... it's not wrong if they've been doing it forever... that's the way they'd always worshiped.....right?
