25 But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors. They prostituted themselves(A) with the gods of the nations[a] God had destroyed before them.(B) 26 So the God of Israel roused the spirit of King Pul(C) (that is, Tiglath-pileser[b]) of Assyria, and he took the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh into exile. He took them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and Gozan’s river, where they are until today.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:25 Lit the peoples of the land
  2. 5:26 LXX; MT reads Tilgath-pilneser

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