1 Chronicles 5:26

stirred up the spirit Cp. 2 Chronicles 21:16; 2 Chronicles 36:22.

Pul … and … Tilgath-pilneser Both here and in 2 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 15:29 (Pul … Tiglath-pileser) the two names are used as though two different persons were meant, but there is no doubt that Pulis the earlier and Tiglath-pileserthe royal name of the same king. See note on 1 Chronicles 5:6.

unto Halah, etc.] In 2 Kings 15:29 it is said only, to Assyria; in 2 Kings 17:6 it is said that the Westerntribes ("Samaria") were carried away and placed in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan and in the cities of the Medes.

Halah probably a district of Mesopotamia, but it has been proposed to identify it with Cilicia which was known to the Assyrians and was under their influence in the later days of their empire.

Habor a river flowing into the Euphrates from the E., known to the Greeks as Χαβώρας or Ἀβόρρας.

and Hara No place of this name is known; the reading may be corrupt for and in the cities of the Medes(2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11).

the river Gozan R.V. the river of Gozan. Gozan was a province of Mesopotamia.