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Now the sons of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land; from Bashan to Baal-hermon, ^(C1)Senir, and Mount Hermon they were numerous.

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

But they were ^(C1)untrue to the God of their fathers and ^(C2)prostituted themselves ^(C3)with the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of ^(C1)Pul, king of Assyria, that is, the spirit of ^(F1)Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he ^(C2)took them 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, where they are to this day.