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The members of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land. They were very numerous from Bashan to Baal-hermon, 1Senir, and Mount Hermon.
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These were the heads of their fathers' houses: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.
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But they broke faith with the God of their fathers, and 2whored 3after 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 4Pul king of Assyria, the spirit of 5Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them 6to Halah, 7Habor, Hara, and 8the river Gozan, to this day.