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Dispersed Israel and Juda h.

Kings In all, the first OF whom was
JeroboaIn, and the last, Hoshea. In
d. Q. III the kingdom csme to an end.
In Is. Q. 740 Tiglath-Pileser, the king
OF Assyria. invaded Palestine and car
rled into captivity the tribe of Reuben,
the tribe OF Cad, and the half-tiibe Of
Manasseh. "and brought them unto
Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to
the river Gozan," places in and about
Assyria. See Chron. v. 49, He also
carried away captive into Assyria the
Inhabitants OF Galilee. See Kings
XIV. 10.
From Kings XVII. IS. we learn that
Shalmaneser, the king of Assyria, In
vaded Samaria twice. On the second
occasion he besieged Samaria three
years, and was victorious. He carried
what was left of the ten tribes Unto
Assyria, and placed them In Halah and
In Habor by the river of Gozan, and in
the cities OF the Medes." In verse "a
OF the Same chapter we are told that
the Assyrian king brought men from
babylon, and from Cuthnii, and from
Ava, and from Klamath. and from
cities OF Samaria instead OF the chill
dren of Israel, and they possessed
Samaria. and dwelt in the cities
thereof"
The ten-tribe kingdom OF Israel was
never restored. From the time the
people were carried into captivity up
to the present hour they have been
scattered people. In the days when
the Messiah was on earth they were
called the scattered people" James
mentioned the twelve tribes which
are scattered abroad" Josephus held
that large multitudes OF the ten tribes
dwelt, In his day, somewhere beyond
the Euphrates. To this day they are
termed the "lost ten tribes" Many
theories have been advanced concern
ing their whereabouts. Some claim
that they are in an open country at the
north pole; Some hold that they are
the Saxon race. They have also
been located in Afghanistan, in China.
In Africa, and in other countries.
When Sam6ria was overthrow some
OF the people of the ten tribes remain
ed in Samaria. Others joined the king
dom of Judah. Anna, the prophecies,
spoken OF In Luke Ii. SO, was OF the
tribe Of Asher. The great multitude
OF the people who were carried into
captivity remained in exile, and. doubt
less, plunged more deeply than ever
into idolatry; for they were an idola-
trous people, with few EXCEPTIONS,
throughout their existence as a king
dom.
The people must have numbered
millions. In the days of Moses the
population of the twelve triies was
about 2. 100000. Tho army then num-
bered GOO, 600 men. or one la five of the
population. That WIS In b. C. 1852. In
the days Of David, about B. q. 1865,
the warriors of eleven Of the twelve
tribes numbered 100000 men. The
warriors OF the tribe OF Benjamin are
not included in the number See l
Chron. xxi, 5, 6. At that time Judah
furnished 100000 of the warriors. 1t
is evident that the days OF David was
twice as large as 1t was in the days OF
Moses.
Soon after the great kingdom of
Israel was rent into two kingdoms, in
the eighteenth year of the reign of
Jeroboum king of the ten-tribe Israel,
the two kingdoms nearly came in col
ltsion. At that time Abiiah was the
king of Judah. From Chron. Kill, 8,
We lenrn that Jerohoam's army num-
hered 800, 600 chosen men, while Abb
iah's numbered 100000 chosen men.
Probably these armies could have in
creased by the addition of ordinary
men. At that time Israel must have
numbered 500, 900 soulsin all and Judah
2. 500. 900.
in d. C. 9l4 Asa became king OF Jud-
ali. Under his reign the armies OF Ben
jamin and Judah had combined
force oft5SO, 900 men, u number almost
equal to that of the twelve tribes in
the days OF Moses. When Jehosha-
phat was king OF Judah, from d. C.
500, and onward for twenty-five years,
Benjamin furnished $50, 600 men for his
N al L N..N ,I =
l, 100, 900 warriors. representing popu-
lation for the kingdom of Judah alone
of about 5000, 600 souls.
From the foregoing statistics IL may
be safely Inferred that the kingdom of
Israel had, at the time of its overthrow
q population of several millions, most
OF whom were dispersed into various
In b. q. SIS, when the kingdom Of
Judah was completely oyerthrown by
Nobuchadnezznr, its population must
have numbered several millions. Not
far from 10000 captives were carried
from Jerusalem to Assylia and ChaI-
dee. Immediately after Cyrus Issued
his decree in ID. G. $50, Ternbhabel led
q company OF 40, 1897 persons bnck to |
the Holy Land; and this company in
cluded 1857 servants and maids, 80, $40 |
persons of the tribes of Judah, BEN |
iamin and Levi, and the balance, ~ 53l |
persons probably were OF the ten |
tribes Prideaux held that the balance |
belonged TO the ten tribes. In his Com |
DIR. Gill remarks that the |
Jews say in their chronology" that |
this balance was made up of exiles be |
longing to the ten tribes.
In j. C. ass another company OF ex-
lies left Babylon for the Holy Land |
under the leadership of Ezra. This |
company numbered 1777 males Their |
families wont with them, and the total |
of persons may have been |
about 5000. According to Josephus,
when Ezra returned to Babylon for u |
season, he sent copy OF the decree Of |
ArtaXerxes Longimanus through |
Media, where many of tho ten tribes |
were in captivity, and through Assyria |
and Chaldea where the other tribes |
were living. From the fact that four
Of the twenty-four courses of priests |
returned to the Holy Land, some infer |
that one-siXth of the people of the /
OF Judah returned to their |
own country. whether that inference
IS sound one or not, II Is fact that |
he great mass of the twelve tribes re-
NAMED in Chaldea, Assyria, Media and
other parts Of the great Persian empire.
Esther, of the tribe of Benjamin,
lecame the queen OF Nerxes, the ruler
IF the Persian empire, Il. C. 419. That
vas tlfty.seven years after Cyrus is
'ued his famous decree, when about
70, 900 exiles left Babylon, and about
.wenty years before Ezra left Babylon
With 5000 exiles. Haman's hatred of
he Jews in general aud OF Mordeeai
II particular, resulted in the issuing
If a commandment by Xerxes for tile