Scriptural Descriptions of the Lost Ten Tribes
Contents:
Part One. OUTLINE with link to verse(s).
Part Two, OUTLINE with relevant verse(s) quoted.
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Part One. OUTLINE with link to verse(s).
1. Originally there were 12 (or 13) Tribes of Israel. Joseph was divided into two Tribes, Ephraim and Manasseh. Genesis 49:28, Exodus 24:4, etc. 2-Chronicles 30:10,
2. The 12 Tribes separated into 2 Kingdoms. 1-Kings 12: 16-17, Isaiah 7:17.
3. The northern Kingdom is referred to as having Ten Tribes. 1-Kings 11:31, 11;35.
4. The northern Kingdom is referred to by various terms including "Israel," 1-Kings 14:19, 15:9, 16, 15:20, etc. "Samaria," 1-Kings 13:32, 2-Kings 10:36, 2-Kings 14:23, 2-Kings 17:24, etc., "Joseph," Zechariah 10:6, Ezekiel 37:16, or "Ephraim," Ezekiel 37:16, Isaiah 7:17.
5. The southern Kingdom was known as "Judah." 1-Kings 12: 22.
6. The Ten Tribes were conquered and exiled by the Assyrians. Isaiah-9: Exiled. 1. The Stages of Exile.
7. The Ten Tribes were separate from Judah. 1-Kings 12:20, Zechariah 8:19, Hosea 11;12.
8. Only in the End Times (or close to them) will Judah and Ephraim re-unite. They have not yet done so. Isaiah 11: 12-13, Ezekiel 37:37-19-22, Jeremiah 3:18, Isaiah 27:13.
Overview of Scripture. A General Introduction to Biblical Proofs
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/biblical-proof/list/overview.html
9. Ten Tribes to be known as "Not be Shown Mercy" exclusive of Judah, Ten Tribes also to be known as "Not my People." Hosea 1:6-8.
10. This will change in the future. The Ten Tribes will be shown mercy. Hosea 2:23.
11. Separate from Judah: Isaiah 11:12-13 49:21.
12. Judah and Israel (Ephraim) are to Return: Jeremiah 30:3, Zechariah 10:6, Isaiah 27:13, Hosea 1:10.
13. The Ten Tribes are referred to as having been "LOST," or rather "still being lost," (Hebrew: "Ha-Ovdim"present tense) in Assyria, Isaiah 27:13.
14. Judah was to be scattered all over the World, Isaiah 11:12.
15. Ephraim was to be located in one group in specific area(s), Isaiah 11:12.
16. Prophecies of Abraham
17. Not known to Judah: Isaiah 49:13-14, 21. Hosea 1:7
The Ten Tribes will have gotten lost (Isaiah 24:3, 49:13-14, 21 Hosea 1:8, Jeremiah 3:6-7) not Judah (Ezra 2:2 2:59 2:70 3:1 etc., Ezekiel 2:3, 3:5 8:10 8:11 9:8 14:1, etc.) .
18. At first Judah will be reluctant to recognize Joseph (Isaiah 49:21) but eventually Judah and Joseph will re-unite (Ezekiel ch.37).
19. Ephraim (the Ten Tribes) to assimilate among the Gentiles, Hosea 7:9.
20. Gomer: Linkage with European nations; Ephraim Intermixed with the Gentiles. Hosea chapter one. Hosea 7:8.
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Part Two, OUTLINE with relevant verse(s) quoted.
1. Originally there were 12 (or 13) Tribes of Israel. Joseph was divided into two Tribes, Ephraim and Manasseh.
Genesis 49:
28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them. And he blessed them; he blessed each one according to his own blessing.
Exodus 24:
4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
2-Chronicles 30:
10 So the runners passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun; but they laughed at them and mocked them.
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2. The 12 Tribes divided into 2 Kingdoms.
1-Kings (NKJV) 12:
16 Now when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying:
'What share have we in David?
We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.
To your tents, O Israel!
Now, see to your own house, O David!'
So Israel departed to their tents. 17 But Rehoboam reigned over the children of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah.
Isaiah 7:
17 The LORD will bring the king of Assyria upon you and your people and your father's house, days that have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah.
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3. The northern Kingdom is referred to as having Ten Tribes.
1-KINGS 11:
31 AND HE SAID TO JEROBOAM, 'TAKE FOR YOURSELF TEN PIECES, FOR THUS SAYS THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL: "BEHOLD, I WILL TEAR THE KINGDOM OUT OF THE HAND OF SOLOMON AND WILL GIVE TEN TRIBES TO YOU
1-KINGS 11:
35 BUT I WILL TAKE THE KINGDOM OUT OF HIS SON'S HAND AND GIVE IT TO YOU, TEN TRIBES.
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4. The northern Kingdom is referred to by various terms including "Israel," 1-Kings 14:19, 15:9, 16, 15:20, etc. "Samariah' 1-Kings 13:32, 2-Kings 10:36, 2-Kings 14:23, 2-Kings 17:24, etc., "Joseph" Zechariah 10:6, Ezekiel 37:16, or "Ephraim," Ezekiel 37:16, Isaiah 7:17.
Zechariah (NKJV) 10:
6 I will strengthen the house of Judah,
And I will save the house of Joseph.
I will bring them back,
Because I have mercy on them.
They shall be as though I had not cast them aside;
For I am the Lord their God,
And I will hear them.
Ezekiel (NKJV) 37:
16 As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: "For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions." Then take another stick and write on it, "For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions."
2-Chronicles 17:
2 And he placed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim which Asa his father had taken.
2-Chronicles 25:
7 But a man of God came to him, saying, "O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel, not with any of the children of Ephraim.
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5. The southern Kingdom was known as "Judah."
1-Kings 12:
22 But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, 23 'Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying, 24 "Thus says the LORD: 'You shall not go up nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel. Let every man return to his house, for this thing is from Me.'" Therefore they obeyed the word of the LORD, and turned back, according to the word of the LORD.
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6. The Ten Tribes were conquered and exiled by the Assyrians.
See:
Isaiah-9: Exiled. 1. The Stages of Exile.
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/isaiah/chap-nine.html
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7. The Ten Tribes were separate from Judah. 1-Kings 12:20, Zechariah 8:19, Hosea 11;12.
1-Kings (NKJV) 12:
20 Now it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was none who followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
Hosea 11:
12 Ephraim compasses me about with lies, and the House of Israel with deceit: but JUDAH yet rules with God, and is faithful with the Holy Ones.
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8. Only in the End Times (or close to them) will Judah and Ephraim re-unite. They have not yet done so.
Isaiah 11: 12-13,
Only in the End Times (or close to them) will Judah and Ephraim re-unite.
Isaiah (NKJV) 11:
12 He will set up a banner for the nations,
And will assemble the outcasts of Israel,
And gather together the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.
13 Also the envy of Ephraim shall depart,
And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off;
Ephraim shall not envy Judah,
And Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
Identifications of the Ten Tribes with Western Peoples, see:
Overview of Scripture. A General Introduction to Biblical Proofs
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/biblical-proof/list/overview.html
More than 120 Biblical Proofs all identifying the LTTs among Western People.
Ezekiel (NKJV) 37:
19 say to them, 'Thus says the LORD God: "Surely I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will join them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand." ' 20 And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.
21 Then say to them, 'Thus says the LORD God: "Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; 22 and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again.
Jeremiah (NKJV) 3:
18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers.
Jeremiah (NKJV) 30:
3 For behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah, says the LORD. And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
Zechariah (NKJV) 10:
6 I will strengthen the house of Judah,
And I will save the house of Joseph.
I will bring them back,
Because I have mercy on them.
They shall be as though I had not cast them aside;
For I am the LORD their God,
And I will hear them.
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9. Ten Tribes to be known as "Not be Shown Mercy" exclusive of Judah, Ten Tribes also to be known as "Not my People."
Hosea (ESV) 1:
6 She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the LORD said to him, 'Call her name No Mercy,
for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all. 7 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the LORD their God. I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.'
8 When she had weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son. 9 And the LORD said, 'Call his name Not My People for you are not my people, and I am not your God.'
10 Yet the number of the Children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' it shall be said to them, 'Children of the living God.' 11 And the Children of Judah and the Children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
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10. This will change in the future. The Ten Tribes will be shown mercy.
Hosea (ESV) 2:
23 and I will sow her for myself in the land.
And I will have Mercy on No Mercy,
and I will say to Not My People, 'You are My People';
and he shall say, 'You are my God.'"
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11. Separate from Judah: Isaiah 11:12-13 49:21.
Isaiah (NKJV) 11:
13 Also the envy of Ephraim shall depart,
And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off;
Ephraim shall not envy Judah,
And Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
Isaiah (NKJV) 49:
21 Then you will say in your heart,
'Who has begotten these for me,
Since I have lost my children and am desolate,
A captive, and wandering to and fro?
And who has brought these up?
There I was, left alone;
But these, where were they?'
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12. Judah and Israel (Ephraim) to Return:
Jeremiah (NKJV) 30:
3 For behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah, says the LORD. And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
Zechariah (NKJV) 10:
6 I will strengthen the house of Judah,
And I will save the house of Joseph.
I will bring them back,
Because I have mercy on them.
They shall be as though I had not cast them aside;
For I am the LORD their God,
And I will hear them.
Hosea (ESV) 1:
10 Yet the number of the Children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' it shall be said to them, 'Children of the living God.' 11 And the Children of Judah and the Children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
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13. The Ten Tribes are referred to as having been "LOST," or rather "still being lost," (Hebrew: "Ha-Ovdim"present tense) in Assyria.
Isaiah (ESV) 27:
13 And in that day a great trumpet [Hebrew: "shofar"] will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria [i.e. the Ten Tribes] and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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14. Judah was to be scattered all over the World, Isaiah 11:12.
see 15 below.
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15. Ephraim was to be located in one group in specific area(s), Isaiah 11:12.
Isaiah (NKJV) 11:
12 He will set up a banner for the nations, And will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.
OUTCASTS OF ISRAEL, = The Lost Ten Tribes who will be found gathered together in specific areas.
THE DISPERSED OF JUDAH i.e. the Jews who are scattered all over the world (Rabbinical Commentaries).
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16. Prophecies of Abraham.
Abraham would give rise to a great nations through whom all Peoples of the Earth would be blessed (Genesis 12:3, 18:17).
All nations of the earth were to be blessed through Abraham (Genesis 12:3, 18:17).
Justice and judgement would be established in the world through descendants of Abraham (Genesis 18: 17, 22:15)..
Abraham was to be given The Promised Land stretching from the Nile River in Egypt to the Euphrates River which flows through Syria and Iraq and into Turkey (Genesis 15:17, 18, 19). This however was on condition that his descendants keep the Law (Genesis 17:7-8, 9 ).
Abraham was promised that many nations would emerge from him (Genesis 17:5).
Abraham was promised that his descendants would be very numerous (Genesis 22:15).
Abraham was promised that from his descents would come nations ruled by monarchs parallel to one another (Genesis 17:6, 16).
Abraham was promised that from his seed would come a people who would rule over much of the earth and control important sea-lanes and strategic thoroughfares (Genesis 22:15, 24:60).
Abraham was promised that the promises made to him were henceforth to be unconditional apart from those concerned with settling in the Land (Genesis 17: 9, 22: ).
See:
Abraham is the Key. The First Hebrew received Promises identifying all the rest!
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/biblical-proof/blessings/key.html
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17. Not known to Judah: Isaiah 49:13-14, 21. Hosea 1:7
The Ten Tribes will have gotten lost (Isaiah 24:3, 49:13-14, 21 Hosea 1:8, Jeremiah 3:6-7) not Judah (Ezra 2:2 2:59 2:70 3:1 etc., Ezekiel 2:3, 3:5 8:10 8:11 9:8 14:1, etc.) .
Isaiah (NKJV) 49:
21 Then you will say in your heart,
'Who has begotten these for me,
Since I have lost my children and am desolate,
A captive, and wandering to and fro?
And who has brought these up?
There I was, left alone;
But these, where were they?'
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18. At first Judah will be reluctant to recognize Joseph (Isaiah 49:21) but eventually Judah and Joseph will re-unite (Ezekiel ch.37).
Isaiah (NKJV) 49:
21 Then you will say in your heart,
'Who has begotten these for me,
Since I have lost my children and am desolate,
A captive, and wandering to and fro?
And who has brought these up?
There I was, left alone;
But these, where were they?'
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19. Ephraim (the Ten Tribes) to assimilate among the Gentiles.
Hosea (NKJV) 7:
9 Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake unturned.
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20. Gomer: Linkage with European nations; Ephraim Intermixed with the Gentiles.
Hosea chapter one