And the 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 unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
The God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul - the Phal-luka of the Ninevite monuments (see the notes at 2 Kings 15:19).
And the spirit of Tilgathpilneser - the son of the former. By them the trans-Jordanic tribes, including the other half of Manasseh settled in Galilee, were removed to Upper Media. This was the first captivity (2 Kings 15:29).