Israelite Tribes among the Scots
. Statistical Evidence. Calvin Kephart ("Races of Mankind. Their Origin and Migration", New York, 1960) opines that:
"Approximately 87 per cent of the British immigration to the United states (in colonial times and later) consisted of persons whose antecedents reach back to western England and to Scotland, Wales, and Ireland."
p.438, n.314: "based on statistics of the U.S. Department of Labour and the assumption that two-thirds of the immigrants from England had such antecedents".
In Britain, Ptolemy located Carnones, Creones, Cerini, and Cornabii all in the north of Scotland in the Caledonni region and these apparently represent the Picts who may have called themselves Querves or Cruitingi or the like. These people all have names containing the root - "CRN" or "KRN" similarly - named groups were found in the rest of Britain. A horned- god named "Cernunnos" was widely worshipped amongst the British Celts reminding one that in Hebrew "KeReN" means horn. An area belonging to the ancient Israelites east of the Jordan was called "KARNAYIM" i.e. Horns and the Prophet Amos mentioned this area in connection with the Ten Tribes.
Amos (NKJV) 13:
9 YOU WHO REJOICE OVER LO DEBAR, WHO SAY, HAVE WE NOT TAKEN KARNAIM FOR OURSELVES BY OUR OWN STRENGTH?
After conquest the Assyrians had re-named the province "Karnunu" just as they named the neighboring area of Gilead "Galazu". The Caledonni of Scotland came from Gilead of Menasseh. The Picts originally were effectually part of the Caledonni.
The Picts according to Lempriere were originally Agathrysi from Scythia. This would make them part of the Khazars from the Tribes of Manasseh and Simeon. The Tribes of Simeon was part of the Ten Tribes and according to tradition had become especially associated with Manesseh. The Scots had for several centuries abstaned from the flesh of pigs and other uclean beasts.
Amos (NKJV) 9:
9 FOR SURELY I WILL COMMAND,
AND WILL SIFT THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AMONG ALL NATIONS,
AS GRAIN IS SIFTED IN A SIEVE;
YET NOT THE SMALLEST GRAIN SHALL FALL TO THE GROUND.