1Ch 5:25-26, Isa 9:1 | ESV | STEP | But they broke faith with the God of their fathers , and whored after the gods of the peoples of the land , whom God had destroyed before them.

1 Chronicles 5:25-26

25 But they broke faith with the God of their fathers, and ^awhored ^bafter the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. 26 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of ^cPul king of Assyria, the spirit of ^dTiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them ^eto Halah, ^fHabor, Hara, and ^gthe river Gozan, to this day.

Isaiah 9:1

For to Us a Child Is Born

1 ^{▼▼Ch 8:23 in Hebrew} But there will be no ⁱgloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he ^jbrought into contempt the land of ^kZebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he ^lhas made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. ^{▼▼Or of the Gentiles}