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Where are the ten "lost" tribes of Israel today?

1 In 732BC - Subjugation and deportation of Israel to Media by three Assyrian kings, Tiglath-Pilesar, Shalmaneser and Sargon II.

These accounts are detailed in the Bible and Assyrian records confirm the Biblical account.

There is a "Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser" in the British Museum that reports the "Tribute of Iaua of Bit HUMRI", that is the "Tribute of Jehu of the House of OMRI." OMRI was one of the kings of Northern Israel and he is shown on this Assyrian monument kneeling in submission before the Assyrian king. Over the years to follow the Israelites were called by many different names, changed by the languages of the different countries through which they traveled.

2 In 707BC - Assyrian frontier reported that armed forces of Urata were invading the area in which Israel had been placed 15 years earlier.

Israel (called GAMIRA) halted them. That puts the Israelites in Media, very much alive and well. The report states, "When the king of Uratu came into the land of Gamir (for Gamira) his army was routed."

3 In 700BC - Jerusalem was attacked...

by the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, as he returned northward following his invasion of Egypt. II Kings 14:3: He took 200,250 men, women and children captive. These were deported to join the Israelites already in Media. Still remaining in Jerusalem were the rest of the tribe of Judah, most of Benjamin and most of the tribe of Levi.

4 About 130 years after the fall of Samaria Nebuchadnessar,

King of Babylon, attacked Jerusalem. Jerusalem was destroyed and most of the people of Judah were taken captive to Babylon where they remained for 70 years. Many stayed there while others returned to Jerusalem after the 70 years was over. This is whre the real fun begins in tracking the tribes. We have the Ten Tribes of Israel, plus over 200,000 from the two-tribed house of Judah, which were deported to Assyria and seemingly "lost."

The Jewish general and author, Josephus, in his book "Antiquities" (70AD) said, "There were but two tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the Romans, while the Ten Tribes are beyond Euphratesand are an immense multitude, not to be estimated by numbers."

What actually happened next? They did NOT disappear into thin air and become lost!

5 In the reign of Saigon II

an Assyrian intelligence report places a large group of people called GIMIRA located just west of the upper Euphrates, north of the Taurus mountains. Others were farth east still in Media.

6 II Edras 13 (in the Apoccrypha) states that some of the Ten Tribes escaped from Assyrian countrol

via the upper Euphrates valleys. They later became notorious in Asia Minor when they overthrew King Midas of Phrygia. These were the western group of GIMIRA or CIMMERIANS, called KIMMEROI by the Greeks, another version of the Assyrian KHUMRI!

7 In 679BC, the second year of Esar Haddon of Assyria,

another group of GIMIRA were defeated by his forces and were pursued westward into Asia Minor. Some of them settled in the Sinope area on the Black Sea, some migrated across the Sea to settle in the Crimea and in Arsereth (II Edras 13). On one of their forays they captured the city of Sardis.

8 c600BC - King Alyattes of Lydia

drove them out of Asia Minor altogether. Their movements continued westward.

9 500BC to 100BC - Most of the western CIMMERIAN group

migrated up the Danube Valley and settled as CELTS in central Europe. Others moved north and west into sparsely inhabited regions of the Baltic, where they were given yet another name by the Romans, CIMBRI, a name probably derived from CIMMERIAN. These people were the ancesotrs of the Picts and Jutes. Small numbers of these Israelites followed the Phoenician trade routes from the port of Miletus on the southwest coast of Asia Minor. Others settled for a time in Spain before moving on to settle in Ireland. That accounts for the Western group. Back to the Eastern group.

10 In 573BC ISKUZA are mentioned for the first time in any historical documents,

locating them still in Media. The Eastern group were still dominated by Assyrian powers and their successors, being threatened by Babylonians and Medes from the south. This group of Israelite, known as GIMER, were also known to the Assyrians as ISKUZA, a name derived from the name ISAAC - one of the names that ancient Israel used to describe themselves, "sons of ISAAC." The Greeks had a word for these ISKUZa. They called them SCUTHAE or SCYTHIAN. The Persian name for the ISKUZA was SAKKA.

There is a great rock carving at Behistan in norther Iran. The writings on this rock are repeated in three languages, Old Persian, Susian and Babylonian. The people who are called SAKKA in Persian are called GIMERA in Babylonian, thus proving them to be one and the same people.

11 612BC - After the fall of the Assyrian capital, Ninevah,

the main body of Scythian Israelites came under such pressure from the Medes that they were forced northwards through the Dariel Pass in the Caucasus mountains and on into the steppe region of Southern Russia. As wave after wave of these people were forced north through the Caucasus, the leaders in the west crossed the rivers Don and Dniper and came into contact with CIMMERIAN Israel groups who had earlier moved across the Black Sea, thus pushing them westward along the valley of the Danube into Central Europe.

12 In the Sixth to the Third centuries BC they were forced northward towards the North Sea and the Baltic.

The Scythians tried to establish themselves in the area of southern Russia. They found themselves sueezed between a people advancing from the east - the Sarmatians - and the CELTS (also Israelites), already occupying Central Europe to the west. Consequently, this group formed the last of the migrating Israelites to arrive in the northern islands and the Baltic and became the Anglo-Saxon group from the area now called Germany.

Others moving northward through Jutland became known as Danes and Vikings. Others settled for a time in northern France and were known as Northmen or Normans. These normans arrived in the eleventh century, the last large group, finally completing the regathering of what Sir Arthur Keith, world-famous ethnologist, described as one family - NOT a racially mixed group. Many of these settled in Great Britain and Northern Island.

As in all migrations many people traveled in many other directions, gradually spreading out all over the world, mixing in with many other peoples and nations, no longer a separate nation.

The Ten Tribes are NOT lost but are absorbed into various countries all over the world!



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