![]() They have seemed strangely to disappear from the world and for 2500 years to have been utterly lost. The Jews, long after, were dispersed among the nations but have ever been known as Jews. They seem to have been indeed “outcast,” from the social world, and the knowledge of civilized man. And they have long seemed to have been lost from the earth. Here was the origin of the mongrel Samaritans.įrom this captivity the ten tribes were never recovered. The king of Assyria placed in their stead, in Samaria, people from Babylon, Cutha, Ava, Hama, and Sapharvaim. This final expulsion of Israel from the promised land, was about 943 years after they came out of Egypt. Shalmanezer, the succeeding king of Assyria, attacked Samaria, took the remainder of the ten tribes, in the reign of Hoshea, king of Israel, carried them to Assyria, and placed them with their brethren in Halah and Habor, by the river Gozen in Media-2 Kings xvii. About twenty years after, (134 years before the Babylonish captivity of the Jews, and 725 years before Christ.) the rest of the ten tribes continuing impenitent. Tiglah Pilnezer, king of Assyria, captured the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manassah, who lay east of Jordan, and placed them in Halah, Harah, and Habor, by the river Gozen.- 1 Chro. By their apostacy, folly, and idolatry, the ten tribes were preparing themselves for a long and doleful rejection, an outcast state for thousands of years. A line of kings succeeded Jeroboam but none of them, to the time of the expulsion, were true worshippers of the God of Israel. ![]() The ten tribes thus went off to idolatry. And would to God he had been the last who has made the professed worshippers of Jehovah “to sin,” by assigning them different places of worship, from motives not more evangelical than those of Jeroboam. ![]() Jeroboam, to perpetuate and widen this breach, and apprehending that if the Jews and ten tribes amicably met for public worship, according to the law of God, the rupture between them would probably soon be healed, set up two golden calves, one in Dan, and one in Bethel and ordered that the ten tribes of Israel should meet there for their public worship. The revolting ten tribes submitted to another king, Jeroboam, And this breach was never after healed. They received from this young prince treatment, which was considered impolitic and rough upon which they separated themselves from that branch of the house of Israel, who, from that time, have been distinguished by the name of Jews. The ten tribes revolted from the house of David, early in the reign of Rehoboam, son and successor of king Solomon. ![]() The subject of this chapter is introduced with a concise view of the expulsion of the ten tribes from the promised land. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1996), 29–44. Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews: 1825 Second Edition, ed. ![]()
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