²²For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their stead until the captivity.
22. was of God] i.e. was prompted by God; compare 1 Samuel xv. 2, 3.
23, 24.
The Half Tribe of Manasseh.
²³And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal-hermon and Senir and mount Hermon. ²⁴And these were the heads of their fathers’ houses; even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses.
23. For the genealogy of Manasseh, see vii. 14 ff.
Baal-hermon] In Judges iii. 3 a mount Baal-hermon is mentioned. Here probably a city is meant, possibly Banias, on the eastern slope of Hermon.
Senir] an Amorite name for Mt Hermon or a peak of the range (Deuteronomy iii. 9).
25, 26.
The Captivity of the Trans-Jordanic Tribes.
²⁵And they trespassed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
25. they trespassed] The Hebrew verb has a special reference to unlawful or idolatrous worship and also to the violation of a consecrated thing; compare Joshua xxii. 16, 20, 31.