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  Israelite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An Israelite is a member of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of the Biblical patriarch Jacob who was renamed Israel by God in the book of Genesis, 32:28.
The Ten Lost Tribes are those from the northern Kingdom of Israel who were deported by the Assyrians in the 8th century BC to Khorason.
One Rasta sect, called the Twelve Tribes of Israel, imposes an astrological system whereby Aries is Reuben, Aquarius is Joseph, etc. With his famous early reggae song The Israelites Desmond Dekker immortalised the Rastafarian concept themselves as the Children of Israel.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tribes_of_Israel   (1704 words)

  
 The 10 lost tribes of Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Judah and the tribe of Benjamin were the only tribes that remained loyal to Solomon's son Rehoboam, and these two tribes of the southern area became known as the kingdom of Judah (because Judah was the principle tribe).
This remnant returning had to occur because the scripture prophecy was that the tribes of Israel and their southern brethren Judah would be reunited.
He has come to restore the Kingdom to the lost sheep of Israel, not gentiles, not the dispersed in Samaria, but it's plain Jesus is addressing the Jews as Israel, his lost people.
members.aol.com /twarren14/10tribes.html   (5663 words)

  
 Israel's Lost Tribes
In 722 B.C., the Assyrians conquered Israel and ten tribes were exiled.
Israel's chief rabbis believe they are descended from the lost tribe of Dan.
Mexico: As reported in the Wall Street Journal, a tribe of Indians living 100 miles north of Mexico City claims to be descended from clandestine Jewish soldiers from Spain who arrived with Hernán Cortés in 1519.
www.factmonster.com /spot/israel1.html   (518 words)

  
 Lost Tribes of Israel - The Pashtuns - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
There is interesting evidence about the preservation among the tribes of family trees on their origin, and on their relationship to the fathers of the Israeli people.
The names of the tribes speak for themselves: the tribe of Harabni (in the Afghan tongue) is the tribe of Reuben, the shinwari is Shimeon, the Levani - Levi, Daftani - Naftali, Jaji - Gad, Ashuri - Asher, Yusuf Su, sons of Josef, Afridi - Ephraim, and so on.
The existence of the Pathan tribes is therefore in the heart of the area in which the ten tribes are found.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=99818   (1534 words)

  
 Lost Ten Tribes of Israel: Britain and USA?
If the Ten Tribes were to be kept in existence it must haver been for some worthy purpose, and the Scriptures disclose that purpose as plainly as they declare the continued existence of the tribes.
That the prophet here refers exclusively to the Ten Tribes is established by the fact that, in the very beginning of his prophecy, he draws a clear distinction between Israel and Judah, and declares that his words are of the former kingdom.
That this was the work for which the children of Israel were set apart and trained, we have already maintained to be plain both from the nature of the case and from the most express testimony of the inspired writers.
www.abcog.org /lost1.htm   (8178 words)

  
 The Lost Tribes Of Israel
The parenthises in verse 24, "(from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)"
Remember that Israel is all of the lost tribes, as well as those of Judah (the Jews) who are willing to accept their share, after He "whose it is" claims the scepter, rather than demand the whole loaf.
But verse 6 tells us that Israel was to be nourished in the wilderness that God had prepared for her for a limited amount of time.
www.jdhigdon.net /losttribes.html   (5089 words)

  
 Prophecy 10: The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The search for the lost tribes of Israel, dispersed nearly 3,000 years ago, is a romantic quest that has mesmerized explorers and adventurers for hundreds of years.
The quest for the lost tribes was one of the three great mysteries pursued by Western adventurers through the ages, along with the search for the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant.
During the time of King Solomon, 10 of the 12 tribes of Israel lived in an area north of Jerusalem in the Kingdom of Israel, while the tribes of Judah and Benjamin inhabited the southern Kingdom of Judah.
www.adishakti.org /prophecies/prophecy_10.htm   (3381 words)

  
 What happened to the lost tribes of Israel?
The truth is that the tribes were never lost.
In the New Testament, the prophetess Anna (Luke 2:36) was from the tribe of Asher (one of the 10 supposed lost tribes).
In Jesus’; day, Israel was a mix of those from the former Northern and Southern Kingdoms.
www.gotquestions.org /lost-tribes-Israel.html   (234 words)

  
 Lost Tribes of Japan
Israel and Japan are the only two countries that in the world I know of that use the forehead box.
Ancient Israel was divided into two countries; one is the southern kingdom of Judah, and the other is the northern kingdom of Israel.
But, if the Lost Tribes came to Japan in early history, it is understandable that their religion and customs would have a strong influence on Japan.
www.biblemysteries.com /library/tribesjapan.htm   (7185 words)

  
 The "lost tribes of Israel" are the Muslims of Afghanistan and Kashmir -- Proved from the Bible and History ...
The "lost tribes of Israel" are the Muslims of Afghanistan and Kashmir -- Proved from the Bible and History -- Afghan and Kashmiri cities mentioned and documented.
The general consensus of scientific opinion, however, is that the tribes became absorbed, as subsequent vanished traces have, in neighboring nations, and thus were not lost in the real significance of the term..
The 10 lost tribes are in Afghanistan and Kashmir.
www.answering-christianity.com /lost_people_of_israel.htm   (3051 words)

  
 Ten Lost Tribes of Israel --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Because the tribes were named after sons or grandsons of Jacob (whose name was changed to Israel by God), the Hebrew people became known as Israelites.
He passed his mantle of leadership to Bishop William Plummer, who announced himself as “Grand Father Abraham.” This group believes that all Jews were originally fl and that modern-day fls are descendants of the “lost tribes of Israel.” Their beliefs centre on the “Seven Keys,” the “Stone of Truth,” and the...
Israel has had to forge a nation from the diverse Jewish people who immigrated from all parts of the world, while trying to integrate a large Arab minority.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9071659?tocId=9071659   (931 words)

  
 'Lost' Ten Tribes of Israel (Forerunner Commentary) :: Bible Tools   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Conventional wisdom declares the house of Israel, the northern ten-tribes led by the half-tribes of Joseph, to be "lost." A recently released CD, Beyond the Sambatyon: The Myth of the Ten Lost Tribes, cites "evidence" of Israelite habitation or influence from Japan to the Americas to Pakistan and Nigeria.
When the Assyrians conquered the northern ten tribes of Israel and dispersed her population in the lands beyond the Euphrates, only the southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin remained in the Land of Promise.
Hosea 12:1: "Ephraim [the leading tribe of Israel] feeds on the wind, and pursues the east wind [the east wind travels west]." This scripture implies that Israel migrated westward.
bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Topical.show/RTD/cgg/ID/857   (2114 words)

  
 The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After the tribes of Israel escaped Egyptian captivity and arrived in the land promised to them by God, the religious capitol of the nation was moved out of Ephraim (Bethel) and taken to Judah (Jerualem).
Ten tribes splintered off to rule the northern provinces and set up a temples at Bethel and Dan, while the tribes of Judah and Benjamine remained loyal to Solomon's son (the royal line of David) and continued temple worship in Jerusalem (see the Two Houses of Israel).
The lost tribes would be found, the prophets said, and they would be called back by God to Jerusalem and return in great triumph.
members.aol.com /Goodnews77/footnote_losttribes.htm   (729 words)

  
 Richard Reader Harris - The Lost Tribes of Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
There are some few passages where the word "Israel" undoubtedly refers, as it did originally, to the twelve tribes of Israel; but generally speaking there is a marked and definite distinction between Judah and Israel, and unless we realise that distinction we cannot understand the prophecies concerning this wonderful people.
Israel was then annexed to Judah under King David (2 Samuel 5: 1), but the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel were finally separated immediately after the death of Solomon, and from that time to the present Judah and Israel have remained absolutely distinct.
Israel was evidently in the minds of the apostles themselves.
www.truthinhistory.org /Harris.htm   (3170 words)

  
 Were there ever ten lost tribes of Israel? The evidence from the Bible
The myth serves the purpose of tying currently living groups of people to Biblical prophecy (by insisting that their nation is one of the ten lost tribes, thus providing what is usually called a ‘secret key to unlock prophecy' as well as providing a personal ‘connection' between a living group and ancient prophets).
The only way Israel could first be crushed by Assyria and then crushed by the Babylonians (obviously at the same time that the southern kingdom of Judah fell to Babylon) is if the Israelites were in Judah, as both Jeremiah and Ezekiel testify that they were.
Standing in front of them were seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them, each man with his censer in his hand and the fragrance of the cloud of incense rising.
www.awitness.org /contrabib/torah/tentribe.html   (1857 words)

  
 Introduction to Finding the Lost Tribes of Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Those nations are the modern descendents of the 12 Lost Tribes of ancient Israel.
The biggest problem with tracing the tribes through history is the lack of surviving written records for movement of major people groups across time.
It is simply not possible to accurately trace the movement of each tribe of ancient Israel as they left the promised land.
www.bibletime.com /bt/nations   (2399 words)

  
 History Research Projects: Book: "The 'Lost" Ten Tribes of Israel...Found!"
After the time of Christ, the Jewish historian, Josephus, wrote that the ten tribes of Israel had become extremely numerous and he even revealed one of their national borders.
Because the Bible states the ten tribes of Israel will be prominent and identifiable in the latter days, those Christians who say the ten tribes of Israel disappeared or "died out" are unwittingly at odds with the Bible.
After the division of the Hebrew tribes, it was virtually impossible to distinguish between the ten tribes and the "Phoenician" city-states as the ten tribes drifted away from Judah and became closely integrated with Tyre and Sidon.
www.giveshare.org /israel/lost10tribes.html   (1943 words)

  
 The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel: Looking for The Remnants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Whereas the progeny of the tribes of Judea, Judah and Benjamin, were eventually permitted to return to their lands under Cyrus the Great of Persia, a fact duly recorded in the Bible, there are, curiously, no biblical records regarding the whereabouts of the ten northern tribes.
And in India, the ancient Jewish community of Bombay, the Bnei Israel, claim to be descended from the Tribes, as does the entire Asiatic tribe of the Shinlung, specifically from the tribe of Menasseh.
These lost tribes are not little clans or some mountain people that every 10 years someone claims they are of this tribe or another.
www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/view.asp?id=174   (2580 words)

  
 Lost Tribes of Israel
When the whole nation of Israel, which included the soon-to-be-called-Jews of the tribe of Judah, split soon after Solomon's death, it was like Judah seceded from the twelve-tribed union and took Benjamin with them.
That Mosaic prediction came to pass when the tribe of Dan was deprived of its territory adjacent to Judah, moved north to Lebanon, and established its territory in Bashan.
In Judges 18 the tribe of Dan established an idolatrous religion - the worship of the sun and moon.
bibleprobe.com /lost.htm   (2554 words)

  
 Ten Tribes Westward   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The ten tribes had 'forgotten' their knowledge as God's People, similar to the forty years in the wilderness of being led by Jehovah out of Egypt through Moses until the time when they were to come to the promised land.
the ten lost tribes, were taken captive by the Assyrian to Halah, Habor by the river Gozan, and to the cities of the Medes (II Kings 17 and 18).
That means the 'house of Israel' or ten tribes were to be further 'scattered' from Assyria, not back to the Holy Land, but 'through the countries'.
members.tnns.net /wordweb/mans7.htm   (3111 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: The Lost Tribes of Israel: The History of a Myth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Each tribe of Israel claimed descent from one of the twelve sons of Jacob and the land of Israel was eventually divided up between them.
The belief persisted that they had been 'lost' in some remote part of the world and there were countless suggestions and claims as to where.
Each tribe of Israel claimed descent from one of the twelve sons of Jacob and the...
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0297819348   (426 words)

  
 NOVA Online | Lost Tribes of Israel | Where are the Ten Lost Tribes?
The tribes split along territorial and political lines, with Judah and Benjamin in the south loyal to the Davidic house, and the rest of the tribes in the north ruled by a succession of monarchies.
The southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin constitute the historical forbears of most of the Jewish People as it is known today.
"There are men of Israel in the land of Persia who say that in the mountains dwell four of the tribes of Israel, namely, the tribe of Dan, the tribe of Zevulun, the tribe of Asher, and the tribe of Naphtali.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/israel/losttribes.html   (865 words)

  
 The "Lost" Ten Tribes of Israel...Found! - Book
Who are the "lost sheep of the house of Israel" that our Savior spoke about in Matt.
This book traces the ten tribes of Israel throughout history, and offers modern identifications for these tribes which are consistent with biblical prophecy and secular records.
It shows that the Bible's prophecies about the ten tribes of Israel have been fulfilled not only throughout history, but also in the modern world.
www.christianreality.com /Books/bs-bok116.htm   (470 words)

  
 Amazing Lost Tribes Of Israel Study Maps
It covers the flights of this Zarah Branch of Judah and the sailing Tribe of Dan to Greece, Troy, Spain, Britain, Ireland, etc. Particular attention is paid to the Hebrew voyages of Danaus, Cadmus, Chalcol, Darda, Brutus and Corineus, and the Danaans.
It examines the House of Israel's deportations to the Assyrian buffer zones.
Using the histories and legends recorded in Southern France and Britain, the miracle voyage of Joseph of Arimathea, Mary Magdalene, Lazarus, etc. is traced from Caesarea in Palestine to the Lost Tribes living in Gaul.
www.angelfire.com /biz/celtica/losttribes.html   (649 words)

  
 Great Books on The Lost Tribes of Israel and the History of the Celts
A study outline of the four invasions of Israel by the Assyrians followed by three groups of aliens resettled in the land of Samaria.
An archaeological study of the origin and history of the so-called "Lost Tribes of Israel" and the Assyrian tables that reveal the fate of these same people chosen by God to be the "light-bearers to the nations."
Each of the tribes of Israel had at least two heraldric symbols associated with it.
www.capstonebooks.com /orig/pages/celts.html   (1364 words)

  
 Brit-Am Genealogy for the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
According to the Bible ten out of the twelve tribes of Israel split away (2-Kings 12:19), formed their own kingdom of "Israel" (2-Kings 12:20) and were exiled by the Assyrians (2-Kings 17:18).
All of these points together with numerous others show that descendants of the Lost Ten Tribes can only be found amongst Western Nations especially the English-speaking ones.
However, the meaning of a Lost Tribe Family Surname can still be Biblical in origin and can be traced to a Clan or Tribe that occupied certain areas of the British Isles.
www.britam.org /genealogy/genealogy.html   (532 words)

  
 LOST TRIBES of ISRAEL
I have a great amount of valid information in my Lost Tribes pages, but it is not presented in a scholarly way.
Can you see the connection to Jesus' saying, "I am not sent but for the lost sheep of the House of Israel?" Immediately after the Messiah suffers in chapter fifty-three, the "barren"(divorced) wife is told to sing.
Composite Map of the House of Israel's Migrations
asis.com /~stag/losttrib.html   (1067 words)

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