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Ten "Lost Tribes"DEFINITIONThe false teaching that the ten tribes who revolted with Jeroboambecame lost after their captivity to Assyria . Some claim they migratedto America and constituted the American Indian tribes :"everlasting hills" (Genesis 49) claimed to be mountains of westernAmerica. Others say the ten tribes became the Anglo-AmericansRepresentatives of All TwelveTribes Lived in Judah'sKingdom2 Chron . 11 :13-17 "And thepriests and the Levites that werein all Israel resorted to him outof all their border . For the Levitesleft their suburbs and theirpossession, and came to Judahand Jerusalem : for Jeroboam andhis sons cast them off, thatthey should not execute thepriest's office unto Jehovah . . . .And after them, out of all thetribes of Israel, such as set theirhearts to seek Jehovah, the Godof Israel, came to Jerusalem tosacrifice unto Jehovah, the Godof their fathers. So they strengthenedthe kingdom of Judah ."2 Chron . 15 :9 "And he gatheredall Judah and Benjamin,and them that sojourned withthem out of Ephraim and Manasseh,and out of Simeon : forthey fell to him out of Israel inabundance, when they saw thatJehovah his God was with him ."A Remnant Composed of AllTwelve Tribes Returned toPalestineEzek . 37 :19-28 "Thus saith theLord Jehovah : Behold, I willtake the stick of Joseph, whichis in the hand of Ephraim, andthe tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them withit, even with the stick of Judah,and make them one stick, andthey shall be one in my hand . . . .And say unto them, Thus saiththe Lord Jehovah : Behold, I willtake the children of Israel from unto our God ."373among the nations, whither therare gone, and will gather themon every side, and bring theminto their own land : and I willmake them one nation in theland, upon the mountains ofIsrael ; and one king shall beking to them all ; and they shallbe no more two nations, neithershall they be divided into twokingdoms any more at all ; neithershall they defile themselvesany more with their idols . . . . norwith any of their transgressions ;but I will save them out of alltheir dwelling-places, whereinthey have sinned, and will cleansethem : so shall they be my people,and I will be their God ."Jer . 31 :21, 22 "Set thee upwaymarks, make thee guideposts; set thy heart toward thehighway, even the way by whichthou wentest : turn again, 0 virginof Israel, turn again to thesethy cities . How long wilt thou gohither and thither, 0 thou backslidingdaughter?"Bible Record Testifies that IsraelReturned, Speaking of All Israel .Heads of the Fathers'Houses, etc.Ezra 2 :70 "So the priests, andthe Levites, and some of thepeople, and the singers, and theporters, and the Nethinim, dweltin their cities, and all Israel intheir cities."Ezra 4 :3 `But erubbabel . andJeshua, and the rest of the headsof fathers' houses of Israel, saidunto them, Ye have nothing todo with us in building a house