1 Chronicles / Question
The chapter reports that the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Assyrian kings who carried away Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh (1 Chronicles 5:26). This exile is linked to their unfaithfulness in the preceding verses (1 Chronicles 5:25–26).
In 1 Chronicles 5:25–26 the writer explains why the tribes east of the Jordan ended up in exile. The core claim is that they broke trust with the God their ancestors worshiped and pursued the gods of the surrounding peoples. This unit closes a larger section listing the families and settlements of the tribes east of the Jordan (Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh) and recounting their military strength and conflicts.
The passage gives a compact cause-and-effect explanation for the exile of Israel’s eastern tribes (Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh). The stated cause is religious unfaithfulness: they “trespassed” against the God their ancestors worshiped and pursued other gods (verse 25).
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with 1 Chronicles 5:26, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
26The God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.