Bible Verse

Then Haggai said, “‘So it is with this people and this nation in my sight,` declares the Lord. ‘Whatever they do and whatever they offer there is defiled.

Haggai 2:14

But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and prostituted themselves to the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

1 Chronicles 5:25

So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria), who took the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. He took them to Halah, Habor, Hara and the river of Gozan, where they are to this day.

1 Chronicles 5:26