15. Ahi son of Abdiel, son of Guni, was head of their ancestral houses.
16. They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its towns, and throughout the pasturelands of Sharon.
17. All of them were registered in the genealogies during the reigns of Judah’s King Jotham and Israel’s King Jeroboam.
18. The sons of Reuben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 warriors who could serve in the army — men who carried shield and sword, drew the bow, and were trained for war.
19. They waged war against the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab.
20. They received help against these enemies because they cried out to God in battle, and the Hagrites and all their allies were handed over to them. He granted their request because they trusted in Him.
21. They captured the Hagrites’ livestock — 50,000 of their camels, 250,000 sheep, and 2,000 donkeys — as well as 100,000 people.
22. Many of the Hagrites were killed because it was God’s battle. And they lived there in the Hagrites’ place until the exile.
23. The sons of half the tribe of Manasseh settled in the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon (that is, Senir or Mount Hermon); they were numerous.
24. These were the heads of their ancestral houses: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel. They were brave warriors, famous men, and heads of their ancestral houses.
25. But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors. They prostituted themselves with the gods of the nations God had destroyed before them.
26. So the God of Israel put it into the mind of Pul (that is, Tiglath-pileser ) king of Assyria to take 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.