The Half-Tribe of Manasseh
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So the children of the half-tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land. Their numbers increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon, that is, to x Senir, or Mount Hermon.
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These were the heads of their fathers' houses: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel. They were mighty men of valor, famous men, and heads of their fathers' houses.
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And they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and y played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.
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So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of z Pul king of Assyria, that is, a TiglathPile'ser king of Assyria. He carried the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into captivity. He took them to b Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan to this day.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:9
(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir).
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Cross References
2 Kings 17:7
For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they had feared other gods.
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2 Kings 15:19
Pul king of Assyria came against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to strengthen the kingdom under his control.
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2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, TiglathPile'ser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
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2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 18:11
Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to Assyria, and put them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.