![]() Amos 9:9 reads: “I will sift the house of Ephraim among all nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve yet shall not the least kernel fall upon the earth. ![]() Some Israeli rabbis believe descendants of the lost tribes number more than 35 million around the world and could help offset the sharply increasing Palestinian population. The fate of Israel’s 10 lost tribes, which were driven from ancient Palestine, ranks among history’s biggest mysteries. The only clues in the Bible were from II Kings 17:6: ".the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes." This puts them in northern Mesopotamia. After that nothing was heard from them again. In accord with Assyrian policy of deporting the local population to prevent rebellions, the 200,000 Jews living in the northern kingdom of Israel were exiled. ![]() Ten of these tribes - the Reuben, Gad, Zebulon, Simeon, Dan, Asher, Ephraim, Manasseh, Naphtali and Isaachar - became known as the Lost Tribes of Israel when they disappeared after northern Israel was conquered by the Assyrians in the 8th century B.C. ![]() The northern kingdom of Israel was occupied by 12 tribes, who were said to have descended from the Patriarch Jacob. ![]()
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