The Lost Ten Tribes of Israel as Predicted.
The People of Israel descend from the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The name 'Israel' was given to Jacob (Genesis 32:28, 35:10). There were Twelve sons of Israel who became the forefathers of Twelve Tribes. The Tribe of Joseph was split into two and is usually counted as two separate tribes, Ephraim and Manasseh. Joseph and after Joseph, Ephraim, was given the right of the first-born whereas the leadership was to come from Judah (1-Chronicles 5:1). Israel and his twelve sons descended into Egypt where their descendants were enslaved. Under Moses the Israelites came out of Egypt. They entered the Promised Land of Canaan and conquered it. King David, from the Tribe of Judah, established the capital at Jerusalem within which his son Solomon built the Temple. In the reign of King Rehoboam, son of Solomon, ten of the northern most tribes seceded and formed their own kingdom (1-Kings 12; 20-23), which was referred to as 'Israel' (e.g. Hosea 5: 5). The remaining Tribes, Judah and Benjamin, who remained faithful to the House of David were called 'Judah'. The modern Jews are mostly descended from former inhabitants of the Kingdom of 'Judah' though many individuals from the northern seceding tribes also made their way south, e.g.
2-Chronicles (NASB) 15:
9 AND HE [King Asa of Judah] GATHERED ALL JUDAH AND BENJAMIN, AND THOSE FROM EPHRAIM, MANASSEH, AND SIMEON WHO RESIDED WITH THEM, FOR MANY DEFECTED TO HIM FROM ISRAEL WHEN THEY SAW THAT THE LORD HIS GOD WAS WITH HIM.
In the course of time, these too became part of the Jewish nation. The two kingdoms of Judah and "Israel" continued to exist side by side for more than one hundred and fifty years. At times they co-operated and on other occasions they were hostile to each other. Eventually the Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom and exiled all of its inhabitants.
They disappeared to history. They are known as the 'Lost Ten Tribes of Israel'.
The Israelites before their exile had been quite numerous. They had been at times a powerful nation, highly civilized, prosperous, and self-assertive. When they were exiled they were not scattered and dispersed but rather re-settled in several definite locations. We can trace these people through history and archaeology and this is what we have done. Our findings concerning the identity of the Israelite Tribes correspond with what was prophesied about them in the Bible. Scripture, as we will show, says that a determining element amongst western nations, especially those of North America, and Britain and British offshoots, are of Israelite descent. This is what the Bible says. How Israelites got to these areas is explained below.
THE EXILE. Places of Exile
The original Twelve Tribes of Israel were to split into two kingdoms. Two Tribes comprising 'Judah' were in the south, while the Ten Tribes of 'Israel' were in the north. The Ten Northern Tribes were later entirely taken away by the Assyrians to places in northern Mesopotamia, to the Caucasus area and to eastern Iran. THE KING OF ASSYRIA TOOK SAMARIA, AND CARRIED ISRAEL AWAY INTO ASSYRIA, AND PLACED THEM IN HALA, AND IN HABOR, AND IN THE CITIES OF THE MEDES (2-Kings 17:6).
The Bible also mentions 'Hara' (1-Chronicles 5: 26) in eastern Iran as a place of exile. The Talmud and archaeological findings enable the identification of these places of re-settlement. Shortly after the exile and re-settlement every one of the said places became a center for a group of peoples who then appeared for the first time. They are known to history as the Cimmerians, Scythians, and Guti or Goths. All these entities were (at least in part) comprised from the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel! In addition to places mentioned by the Bible as places of exile (such as Halah, Habor, the River Gozan, Cities of the Medes, and Hara) Talmudical sources also recall the Snowy
Mountains (Sanhedrin 94a), Caspii (Talmud Kiddushin 72a), Mountains of Darkness (Midrash Numbers Rabah 16:15), Har-Mannae (Targum Yehonatan on Amos 4:3), Sambation (Midrash Numbers Rabah 16:15), Afrikey (Talmud Sanhedrin 94a), etc. The said names often prove to be alternative appellations for the same or adjacent locations .
Exile by Sea
Isaiah also spoke about the Exile.
BUT THERE WILL BE NO GLOOM FOR HER THAT WAS IN ANGUISH. IN THE FORMER TIME HE BROUGHT INTO CONTEMPT THE LAND OF ZEBULUN AND THE LAND OF NAPHTALI, BUT IN THE LATTER TIME HE WILL MAKE
GLORIOUS THE WAY OF THE SEA, THE LAND BEYOND THE JORDAN, GALILEE OF THE NATIONS (Isaiah 9:1).
The above translation is that of the King James Version. It is one possible rendition of the Hebrew original which however was also understood by Rabbinical Commentators to say something like the following:
For the oppression will not be lightened; It will be more burdensome than the relatively light (easier) exile that the Land of Zebulon and the Land of Naphtali experienced. The last exile was [or WILL BE] more burdensome [IT WILL BE?] by way of the sea, across the Jordan, the highlands of the nations.
Whichever way the passage is to be understood, it is agreed that it involves a comparison of the different stages of exile and comes to teach us something about them. It mentions a stage of exile as being 'by way of the sea.'
In addition to exile by land there had also been an enforced maritime transportation: Amos (4:3) refers to the 'cows of Bashan' 'in the mountain of Samaria' (Amos 4;1) many of whom will be taken away in sailing vessels and the rest shall be cast 'into the palace.' - 'Into the palace' has been translated from the Hebrew word 'Harmona' which is also translatable as meaning 'To the Mountain of Mannae' and so it is understood in the Talmudically-approved Aramaic version of Yehonathan. Mannae was in the general area of Armenia to which Jewish and local sources say the Israelites were taken.
Amos said
:
HEAR, THIS WORD, YE KINE OF BASHAN, THAT ARE IN THE MOUNTAIN OF SAMARIA, WHICH OPPRESS THE POOR, WHICH CRUSH THE NEEDY, WHO SAY TO THEIR HUSBANDS, BRING, AND LET US DRINK.
...HE WILL TAKE YOU AWAY IN BIG SHIPS AND THOSE WHO REMAIN IN FISH BOATS.
EACH WOMAN WILL BE CARRIED STRAIGHT OUT THROUGH THE BREACHES AND CAST OUT BEYOND THE
MOUNTAINS OF MANNAE.KJ: "into the palace" (Amos 4;1-3).
The words rendered by us as "BIG SHIPS" [Hebrew: "tsinot"] and as "FISH BOATS" ['sirot-dugah'] are direct translations from the Hebrew.
The verse in the Hebrew may therefore be understood as saying that one part of the exiles would be taken away in different types of sailing vessels and another part would be exiled to Mannae where the exiled Israelite 'Cimmerians' and Scythians indeed appeared .
The Prophet Isaiah foresaw that in the Last Days,
THE LORD SHALL SET HIS HAND AGAIN THE SECOND TIME TO RECOVER THE REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE, THAT SHALL BE LEFT FROM ASHUR, AND FROM MITSRAYIM, FROM PATROS, AND FROM CUSH, AND FROM SHINAR, AND FROM HAMATH, AND FROM THE ISLES OF THE SEA (Isaiah 11:11).
These places were those to which the Ten Tribed Exiled Hebrews were taken immediately after their exile or which they somehow gravitated towards shortly afterwards and from there moved on. They are not in every case those areas which they are now found in and from which they will directly return. In other words those who were in the above regions in the Last Days will return from wherever they will be at the time. 'Isles of the Sea' referred here primarily to the Isles of Britain. Getting to the 'Isles of the Sea,' entails travel by boat.
We saw above that another verse in the Book of Isaiah associated with the Ten Tribes' exile describes the stages of exile and mentions amongst them one path which was to be, 'BY WAY OF THE SEA, BEYOND JORDAN, IN GALILEE OF THE NATIONS' (Isaiah 9;10).
The expressions 'Isles of the Sea,' 'Way of the Sea,' 'large boats,' 'fish-boats,' in connection with the exile of Northern Israel is consistent with transportation by sea which was logistically possible at that time and had been effected in other cases by Phoenician seafarers. Israelites had participated in Phoenician seafaring ventures.
The Prophet Hosea spoke of Ephraim together with Phoenician Tyre as if their fates were entwined, and as if part Origin 7
of Ephraim was settled in Tyre, and both suffered from the Assyrian conquest:
EPHRAIM, AS I SAW TYRE, IS PLANTED IN A PLEASANT PLACE: BUT EPHRAIM SHALL BRING FORTH HIS CHILDREN TO THE MURDERER (Hosea 9:13).
EPHRAIM IS SMITTEN, THEIR ROOT IS DRIED UP...
MY GOD WILL CAST THEM AWAY, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HEARKEN UNTO HIM: AND THEY SHALL BE WANDERERS AMONG THE NATIONS (Hosea 9:16-17).
The Phoenician historian, Sanchuniathon (ca.300 BCE) was cited by Philo, Eusebius and others. He stated that the city of Tyre had been founded by Sameroumous and Ou'soos. Sameroumous was a maker of tents and had the attributes of Jacob (Genesis 26:27). His name is a play on that of 'Samaria' meaning the northern Israelite kingdom. This indicates a partial Israelite involvement in Tyrian (i.e. Phoenician) enterprise and settlement. On the other hand, the name 'TYRE' sometimes serves as an euphemism for the descendants of Esau. Ousoos who also, said Sanchuniathon, founded Tyre is given the qualities of Esau the brother of Jacob. The city of Tyre had two parts, one section was on the shore while the other occupied an island just off the other half on the coast. Esau was ancestor to Edom and an entity of Edom occupied the portion of Tyre on its landward side. Esau is considered the arch enemy of Israel.
In Amos (ch.1.), it is prophesied that the Philistines (inhabitants of Ashkelon, Ashdod, Gaza, Ekron) and Phoenicians (Tyre) will be punished for betraying an entire exile into the hand of Edom who accompanied Assyria. Both the Philistines and Phoenicians were sea-farers. Tyre is upbraided for not remembering the Covenant of Brotherhood which once existed between itself and Israel..
FOR THREE TRANSGRESSIONS OF TYRE ...I WILL NOT TURN AWAY THE PUNISHMENT THEREOF: BECAUSE THEY DELIVERED UP THE WHOLE CAPTIVITY TO EDOM, AND REMEMBERED NOT THE COVENANT OF BROTHERS (Amos 1:9).
The deliverance to EDOM is connected to the transference by sea of a portion of the exiles to the west.
A Midrash names Daphne of Antiochea (on the north Syrian coast) as one of the Three Places to which the Ten Tribes were exiled. The French-Israeli researcher Nahum SLOUCHZ (1909) believed that those exiled to 'Daphne of Antiochea' represented Israelites of Phoenician culture who disappeared and whose fate was connected with their Phoenician connections.
ISAIAH
The Book of Isaiah like all of Scripture is directed primarily to the nation of Israel. The Israelites as a nation were divided into two sections: (1) Judah i.e. the Jews, and (2) Joseph, meaning the Lost Ten Tribes.
The Divisions of Israel
Isaiah spoke of the division between Israel (The Lost Ten Tribes) and Judah (7:17-18, 8:8). In Isaiah 7:17 the division is referred to as the worst calamity that ever overcame the Children of Israel. Isaiah also recalls situations in which the various sections of Israel will be opposed to each other:
Isaiah 9:
21 MANASSEH EPHRAIM, AND EPHRAIM MANASSEH, AND TOGETHER THEY ARE AGAINST JUDAH. FOR ALL THIS HIS ANGER IS NOT TURNED AWAY AND HIS HAND IS STRETCHED OUT STILL.
Manasseh is identifiable with the USA, Ephraim with Britain and her daughters, Judah with the Jews.
The Last Days
Isaiah predicted that in the Last days only a few would survive and that disasters would occur:
Isaiah 10:
22 FOR THOUGH YOUR PEOPLE ISRAEL BE AS THE SAND OF THE SEA, ONLY A REMNANT OF THEM WILL RETURN. DESTRUCTION IS DECREED, OVERFLOWING WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS.
BE AS THE SAND OF THE SEA: Descendants of Israel will have been exceedingly numerous towards the end times.
DESTRUCTION: A great calamity may take place. Only a few may survive. Our survival or the survival of our descendants is dependent on our deeds and intentions. We should endeavor to improve ourselves. We also need to influence for good those we can. Zechariah (13:6-9) indicates that two-thirds of the people will perish. The remnant will be saved and reconciled with God. The exiles of Israel who were taken to Assyria, Egypt (Mitsrayim), Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the Isles of the Sea (and from there moved to other regions) will return (Isaiah 11:11). These names in the Hebrew Bible often have double meanings and refer to more than one location. Alternate identifications for the places named based on historical and ethnic studies include:
Assyria = Germany, Western and Central Europe in general. Egypt (Mitsrayim in Hebrew) = Russia.
Pathros. Cush (translated as Ethiopia) = Central Asia, India, Ethiopia. Elam = Persia, Serbia. Shinar Pontus, Gamir in Cappadocia northeast Turkey. Hamath Daphneh of Antiochia in northwest Syria. The Isles of the Sea = Britain, North America.
Isaiah foresaw the re-unification and ingathering of THE OUTCASTS OF ISRAEL, AND GATHER THE DISPERSED OF JUDAH FROM THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH (11:12). The northern Tribes were cast out to specific regions and stayed together whereas the Jews of Judah were dispersed all over the world.
Reconciliation with Judah
There will be an end to anti-Semitism on the part of Ephraim and fiction with Judah:
13 THE JEALOUSY OF EPHRAIM SHALL DEPART, AND THOSE WHO HARASS JUDAH SHALL BE CUT OFF; EPHRAIM SHALL NOT BE JEALOUS OF JUDAH, AND JUDAH SHALL NOT HARASS EPHRAIM.
EPHRAIM represents all the Ten Tribes.
WHO HARASS JUDAH SHALL BE CUT OFF: Anti-Semites will be punished.
EPHRAIM SHALL NOT BE JEALOUS OF JUDAH: A lot of anti-Semitism is due to jealousy.
JUDAH SHALL NOT HARASS EPHRAIM: Jewish do-gooders and hyper-active individuals etc., sometimes antagonize other people.
This verse speaks of Ephraim (the Ten Tribes) and Judah (the Jews) as remaining separate entities sometimes antagonistic to each other right up to the End Times. The Palestinian people are named after the Philistines and references to the Philistines in prophecies of the future refer to the Palestinians.
Isaiah 11:14 should be translated:
THEY [Judah and Ephraim together, see verse 11:13] WILL CAUSE THE PALESTINIANS TO BE FLOWN AWAY TO THE WEST.
Judah and Ephraim together will plunder the peoples of the east, defeat and subdue certain European nations such as Edom, Moab, and Ammon (11:14). The Return will be made possible by great miracles (11:15).
The Exiles Go Westward
Isaiah prophesied before and during the exile of the House of Israel. He described the exile of the northern tribes and the land of Israel being completely emptied out (24:3). The exiles would be taken to the west (24:14) where they are exhorted to glorify God from the fires in the Isles of the Sea (24:15) meaning in the Isles of Britain:
Piotr Gasiorowski:
The tradition of erecting hilltop cairns and mounds as orientation marks, and of using beacon fires for long-distance communication was very strong in Celtic (also Roman) Britain One trace of that is the occurrence of the Brythonic element tan- 'fire' (Welsh t n) in hill names (there are many Tan Hills in England). -- not only in ancient times but all through history down to the invention of the telegraph. For example, a network of beacons set up on hilltops was used in England in 1588 to signal the approach of the Spanish Armada, and once it was spotted off the Scillies the news reached the English commanders in no time at all. cf.
The Chronicles of Eri, being the history of the Gaal Sciot Iber, or the Irish People, translated from the Phoenician dialect of the Scythian language, by Roger O' Connor were published in London in two volumes in 1822.
The Chronicle says that the Gaali had been in Armenia, and the Caucasus. They were traders and metallurgists.
Hamath [-Which incidentally was known later as Daphne of Antiochia and was considered by the Talmudic Sages one of three regions through which the Lost Ten Tribes were taken into exile. The Jewish historian Nahum Slouschz (1909) regarded the exile of Daphne of Antiochea to represent that of Israelites associated with the Phoenicians].
The Chronicles tells how the Gaali sailed to Spain which was then ruled by the Phoenicians who in turn were directed from (Assyrian-controlled?) Hamath. In Spain they moved from the southern area of Tartessos to Galatia in the northwest and shook off Phoenician control. Together with the Phoenicians from their base in Spain they had established mining operations in Cornwall, in Britain. Some of them moved to Aquitaine in Gaul. Due to war and famine, those in Spanish Galatia migrated to Ireland. Though not Phoenicians they worshiped God under the form of baal, received instruction in Phoenician ways, bore Hebrew-sounding names and seemed to have Israelite-values such as an aversion to images and other characteristics.
These people (the Gaal of Sciot) had the custom of lighting beacon fires on the coasts. All the headlands and promontories belonging to the Gaal of Sciot on the northwest coast of Spain were called in the Phoenician language Breoccean, that is, "The Land of Flaming Fires," because of the blaze that was kept up and could be seen at a great distance out to sea. The same custom was observed on the coast of Cornwall and Devonshire after the Gaal of Sciot joined with the Phoenicians in their mining operations there, and that land was called Breotan, "Breo" meaning Flaming Fire [cf. BIAR = burn in Hebrew].
This practice has been used to explain verses in Isaiah:
THEY SHALL LIFT UP THEIR VOICE, THEY SHALL SING FOR THE MAJESTY OF THE LORD. THEY SHALL CRY ALOUD FROM THE SEA. WHEREFORE, GLORIFY THE LORD IN THE FIRES [Hebrew: ba-urim], EVEN THE NAME OF THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL IN THE ISLES OF THE SEA (Isaiah 24:14-15). Origin 13
The Exiles
Isaiah says that the nation will be increased greatly and be removed unto the ends of the earth (24:16, 26:15) meaning the geographical extremities such as Britain, North America, Scandinavia, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Those who had been exiled by the Assyrians and were lost together with those (of Judah) taken captive to Egypt will return with the blowing of a great shofar often translated as 'trumpet.' [A shofar is a trumpet made out of the horn of a ram]. The returnees will worship God in the Holy Temple Mount in Jerusalem (27:13). Isaiah described the drunkards of Ephraim (28:1). He may have meant this figuratively as drunk with power and success but a literal explanation is also possible. The British, Americans, and Australians are among the foremost consumers of alcohol in the world. They will not be familiar with Hebrew and will speak with another tongue (28:11). They will be in islands (41:1), in the best places (Hebrew: 'atsiliayah' translated in the KJ as "chief men"), at the ends of the earth (41:8-9). The Lost Ten Tribes (42:6) in the islands will become A COVENANT OF THE PEOPLE in Hebrew a "Brit-Am." They will be a Light to the Gentiles meaning a civilizing influence. From the End of the Earth and the Isles they will have become seafarers (42:10). The enemies of Israel, including those of the Lost Ten Tribes, in their places of Exile are the enemies of God Almighty (42:13). The exiles are fulfilling the purpose of God in this world and even though they do not recognize it and are blind to it they are also His servants and HIS messenger (42:19).
Israel Will Rule Over Egypt, Africa, and India
Egypt shall be subjected to Israel, Cush (translated as "Ethiopia" but also applicable according to the Aramaic translation and related traditions to India and its neighborhood. Black Africa ("Seba") will be yours.
The Ten Northern Tribes were exiled by the Assyrians. Later, the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar conquered Judah and Jerusalem and exiled the Jews to Babylon. Cyrus the king of Persia conquered Babylon and allowed the Jews of Judah to return. Isaiah (44:28) mentioned the name of Cyrus even though he prophesied close to 200 years before his time. The Prophecies of Isaiah concerning Cyrus on the whole fit the Persian king of that name though here and there they divert from him on some important points. These prophecies also 14 Chapter 2. Isaiah
tend to go off on a tangent, speak of Cyrus and then in the same breath speak about the future of Israel. The Rabbis interpreted the prophecies about Cyrus to pertain to a future being of whom the Persian King Cyrus was a kind of partial prototype. President Truman who assisted the Jews in creating the present State of Israel was an admirer and emulator of the Persian king. He once declared to a visiting delegation, \I am Cyrus!\ This interpretation fits the message of Scripture. Isaiah begins by speaking about Cyrus and then he addresses himself to Israel. He (45:14) predicts that whatever passes via (Hebrew \yagi-ay\ translated as labor but really meaning \come unto\) Egypt, and the merchandise of Cush (India not Ethiopia as translated in the King James), shall be yours and the tall Sabaean African Negroes will pass over unto you in chains. In the end they will acknowledge that God is with you. There is no other. Previously, Isaiah (43:3) predicted that Cush (India) and Saba (Black Africa) would be subjected to Israel. Isaiah (43:3 and 45:14 and the verses around them) predicted that the Lost Ten Tribes would rule over India, Egypt and much of Black Africa. The trade with India would be theirs, the recompense arriving (via the Suez Canal) at Egypt would be theirs, and they would transport Africans (many of whom were large-bodied) across the seas in chains. The whole passage ends on the point that in the Last Days they will return to worship the True God. We identify the Lost Ten Tribes headed by Britain and America as Israel. If we consider Britain and North America as one Anglo-Saxon entity then the Prophecy indicates that the Lost Ten Tribes are amongst them. The British ruled India and economically they gained very much from trade with India and their access to it. They ruled Egypt and controlled the Suez Canal linking the Mediterranean Sea with the East. They also controlled much of Africa. African Slaves in chains were sent by them and others acting on their behalf across the Sea to North America and to the West Indies. The British were later to be among the first to stop to prohibit international trade in slaves and to put a stop to it on the High Seas. So too, the USA fought a blood-soaked Civil War over the issue. Nevertheless at the beginning they had been at least partly responsible for what they later put a stop to! Isaiah (43:5-6) said that the exiles would be ingathered from the east and west, north, and south, and from the ends of the earth.
Exhortations and Signs of Identification
God says that HE is the Redeemer, the LORD of Hosts, the First and the Last and besides HIM there is none other (Isaiah 44:6). Isaiah (chapter 49) speaks of the Isles (49:1), of raising up the Tribes of Jacob (49:6), and of the preserved of Israel who will be a light unto the Gentiles and bring salvation unto the end of the earth. The flag of Britain is called the UNION JACK (i.e. union or covenant of Jacob) and the nickname YANKEE for North American derives from a form of the name Jacob. In an aside Isaiah refers to the Jews of Judah (49:7) who were despised in their places of exile. In the last days princes will give them honor and bow down to them because no matter what they did remain essentially faithful to the God of Israel.
Britain, North America, and Australia
Isaiah says (49:8) that the exiled of Israel will be preserved and become a covenant of people (in Hebrew a Brit-Am), who will establish the world and inherit wasted heritages. They will use released prisoners to colonize these heritages (49:9), as the British did at first in North America and Australia. They shall return from the north and from the west, and from the "Land of Sinim." 'Sinim' is interpreted to mean 'Land of the South.' In the Vulgate Latin Version of the Bible which was translated by Jerome after consulting with Jewish Sages, the Land of Sinim is rendered as Australia. The term Australia in Latin means Land of the South. The Egyptians referred to the southernmost known area of land as sin-wur 1. This corresponds to the Land of Sinim meaning Australia. There are reports of Egyptian and Phoenician remains being found in Australia. The anatomists and Egyptologist Professor Sir Grafton Elliot Smith (1871-1977) interpreted the technique of mummification used in a mummy from a Torres Strait island (Northern Queensland, Australia) as definitely being indicative of Ancient Egyptian influence. Mummies were also found in New Guinea and New Zealand.
The Midrash Speaks of Isaiah and the Ten Tribes
The Sages (BaMidbar Rabah 1;6, Eichah Rabah 2;9, Talmud Yerusalemi Sanhedrin ch.17, L.6,29) agreed that Isaiah 49 was referring to the Lost Ten Tribes. They said that there were three major areas to which the Lost Ten Tribes went: (1) Beyond the Sambation River; (2) Daphneh of 16 Chapter 2. Isaiah
Antiochia; and (3) a place where the Clouds came down and covered them.
The Sambation River originally referred to the Lower Zab River (in Persia) which is an eastern tributary of the Tigris River. This was the region of Mannae whereto part of the exiled Israelites had been taken and where they became identified with the Scythians. From this first area of SAMBATION the Israelite Scythians were to be forced northwards onto the South Russian Steppe lands. The term Sambation was also applied to both the Don and Danaper Rivers (especially the Don) in the Scythian area of Southern Russia. From Scythia the Scythians moved westwards into Europe and the British Isles. A remnant of the Scythians were the Khazars. Abraham Polak (1951) in his important study of the Khazars brings sources showing that early post exilic Jewish Writings referred to the Don River as the Sambation. This has been confirmed by other works including those of the present writer.2
Daphneh of Antiochia was in Northern Syria besides Hamath. From Hamath, according to the Irish Chronicles of Eri, the exiles were taken to Spain.
The Clouds that according to the Midrash covered the Lost Ten Tribes are interchangeable elsewhere (Midrash BaMidbar Rabah 17;16) with the Mountains of Darkness meaning the Caucasus or Mountains of Snow which was another area to which the exiles were taken (Talmud Sanhedrin 94a). From those places to which the Lost Ten Tribes were exiled there emerged the Cimmerians, Scythians, and Gothic ethnic groups.
Judah
Isaiah (49:13) again turns to Judah who feels forgotten (49:14). God will return and comfort the Jews (Judah) and make recompense for all the troubles that passed over them and greatly increase their population (49:18-20). When Judah sees the Lost Ten Tribes returning (49:21) he will ask,
'Where did these come from? I was alone and persecuted, and driven from country to country. Why did they not help me?'
The Zohar ('VaYechi') confirms that Isaiah is speaking of the Lost Ten Tribes and refers to Isaiah (chapter 11) where he speaks of the re-unification of Judah with Ephraim.4 Isaiah returns to speak of the comforting of Judah and says that those who oppressed the Jews had in effect denied the existence of the LORD God of Israel (49:26). The Isles shall wait for the salvation of God (51:5). The non-Israelite Gentiles shall no longer be allowed to occupy and degrade Jerusalem (52:1) as the Arabs now do. Isaiah predicts that a future Messiah, descendant of David (55:3-4), will come and deliver Israel. Whatever has been prophesied will come to pass (55:11).
The Ingathering of the Exiles
The descendants of non-Israelites who attach themselves with Israel will receive an inheritance alongside their fellow Israelites (55:6). [A similar message is given in Ezekiel 47:21-22]. The ingathering will be in stages (56:8). The Lost Ten Tribes will help Judah rebuild the Temple (Midrash Shmuel 13; Midrash Yalkut Shimeoni-2, remez 106; Rashi on Hosea 3:5). A Redeemer (59:20) will come to Zion (the Jews) and to those who turn away from sin in Jacob, i.e. The Ten Tribes.
Brief Recapitulation of Isaiah.
Isaiah foresaw a RECONCILIATION between Judah and the Lost Ten Tribes. The Lost Ten Tribes would be in the west, in the Isles of the Sea. They shall be exceedingly numerous and be found in geographical extremities at the ends of the earth. They will be consumers of alcohol. They shall rule (or have ruled) over Africa, the Suez Canal, and have caused African slaves to be taken overseas in chains. They shall be a Brit-Am, in the west, the north, and in the Land of Sinim meaning Australia and New Zealand. [This has been confirmed in Biblical Codes]. The Union Jack and the name Yankee indicate the Tribes of Jacob meaning the Ten Tribes. Judah will return to his land. Judah at first will not understand where the great multitude of Lost Israelites came from and why they did not help him when he was oppressed and persecuted. The Lost Tribes and Judah will be reconciled. Non-Israelites who have attached themselves to Israel will receive an inheritance alongside the other Israelites.