Lost Ten Tribes Found in Turkey TEN TRIBES GEOGRAPHY
The original deportation (722bc) II KIngs 17:24, of the Ten Tribes from the land of Samaria II Kings 17:23, lead by the tribe of Ephraim, to Assyria, currently Turkey. The Ten tribes living in the land of Assyria were conquered in 632ad by the Muslim conquerer Mohammed. The Samaritans translated the Pentateuch from Hebrew into Greek, The Targum or Samaritan-Aramaic version of the Pentateuch had liturgical compositions of Amram Darah and marqah, as well as a midrashic commentary (called The Book of Wonders) on parts of the Pentateuch, all in Aramaic. Thiis is important from a liguistic view point beacuse it exemplifies a tradition of exegesis divergent fron the Jews and because it anticipates several concepts and idioms found later in the Quran, of the 7th century. This means the style and or words were lifted from the Hebrew and presented in expressions in the Quran so native readers would understand the phrase.
The principle collections of Samaritan manuscripts are in the British Museum and the Vatican Library.
The Heritage of the Ten Tribes was moved and lost in Assyria, currently Turkey. Meaning if you can find Hebrew blood in the African Lemba Tribe, you certainly will find the same DNA evidencel in Turkey.
Understand THIS …the Samaritans were of the Woman’s Seed thousands of years before being the Gerizim incident conquered.
By Geography, the Ten Tribes were carried off to Assyria, 721bc by _________ 
Currently Turkey
Correlation between 10 Tribe and 7 Churches of Revelation
At the time of the Apostle Paul, the provinces of Asia Minor; Mysia, Lydia, Asia, Caria, Lycia Pamphyphylia, Pisida, Phrygia, Lyconia, Cilicia, Galatia and Bithynia.
Please note when Paul reached these areas there were already Synagogues in Antioch in Pisidia, currently known as, Yalobatch, Turkey. Acts 13:14-52 …add page 119 atlas In Iconium 60 miles east of Antioch, Paul and Barnabas went to the already established Jewish Synagogue. Acts 14:1-5. Iconium was a large city, still in existence as, “Konieh”, and in the Middle Ages the capitol of a powerful Mohammedan Kingdom.
At time of Seven Churches of the Revelation given to the Apostle John, the provinces were, Ephesu, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis Philadelphia and Laodicea.
Assyrian and Babylonian inscriptions, especially the annals of Tiglath-Pileser, Sargon, Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, Assurbanipal and Nebuchadnezzar, etc ; record that Hebrews were scattered throughout this area by each successive empire. This means that unless you can trace your DNA to the Hittite Dynasty (ancient settlement of Hittite Tribes, prior to invasion of Egypt); you are currently and anthropolgically of a Hebrew Heritage (some of you know this by non-Islamic traditions that were passed down).
Assyria had been taken over by the Mitanni (a Hurrian speaking kingdom) but established its independence in the mid 14th century bc. Under Tukulti-Ninurta I, Assyria dominated the entire fertile crescent in the late 13th century. By the time of Tiglath-Pileser I, about a century later it had directed more of its attention westwards towards the Levant in the West and lost control of Babylon and the south. Slowly Assyria began to expand again, reaching its apex between 750 and 650 bc under the rulers Tiglath-Pileser III, Sargon II, Sennacherib, and Ashuribanipal (668-627 bc). The empire collapsed from invaders with Nineveh falling to Nabopalasar of Babylon in 612 bc and the empire dying in 605 bc.
Meanwhile, Babylon had been reasserting itself. Nabopalasar had begun the Chaldean dynasty during his rule begining in 625 bc. This period is also known as the Neo-Babylonian period although that term also describes the language of that era. Under Nabopalasar’s son Nebuchadnezzar II, Babylon expanded westward, taking Jerusalem in 586 BCE. Babylon fell in the mid-540’s to Cyrus the Persian whose empire lasted until the late 300’s bc when Alexander of Macedon established his empire and renamed the area “Mesopotamia”.
The fall of “Israel” (Northern Kingdom, including Samaria) and the people’s exile to Assyria (2 Kings 17:6) around 721 B.C. was attributed to their not following the Lord. At that point, Judah (the Southern Kingdom, which included Jerusalem) still was independent. The “gods” from other areas included Succoth-benoth, Nergal, Ashima, Nibhaz, Tartak, Adrammelech, Anammelech, Molech, Asherah, Nisroch, Topheth, Ashtoreth, Chemosh, Milcom, and Baal; these were being worshipped also by the Hebrews, angering the Lord. In the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah, Isaiah was the prophet. Isaiah caused time to go backwards (2 Kings 20:11).
During the reign of Josiah as king of Judah, Hilkiah (the High Priest) discovered a scroll of laws in the temple. Josiah restored the Lord’s Temple and destroyed the shrines to other “gods,” but Huldah (the prophetess: 2 Kings 22: 14-20) told Josiah that Judah would be destroyed because of its worshipping these “gods.” Finally, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took over Judah in 586 B.C. Thus, the Southern Kingdom was independent for 135 years longer than the Northern Kingdom. excerpt, “Biblenotes”
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BIBLICAL TEXT EXPLAINS HOW THE TEN TRIBES WERE DEPORTED TO TURKEY
17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel, and reigned nine years.
17:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, yet not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him presents.
17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
17:7 And it was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
17:8 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they practised;
17:9 and the children of Israel did impute things that were not right unto the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
17:10 and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every leafy tree;
17:11 and there they offered in all the high places, as did the nations whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD;
17:12 and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them: ‘Ye shall not do this thing’;
17:13 yet the LORD forewarned Israel, and Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and of every seer, saying: ‘Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by the hand of My servants the prophets’;
17:14 notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in the LORD their God;
17:15 and they rejected His statutes, and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies wherewith He testified against them; and they went after things of nought, and became nought, and after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them that they should not do like them;
17:16 and they forsook all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal;
17:17 and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and gave themselves over to do that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him;
17:18 that the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of His sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. (As noted Judah would also be exiled and deported into Babylonian Captivity).
17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they practised.
17:20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until He had cast them out of His sight.
17:21 For He rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam drew Israel away from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
17:22 And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
17:23 until the LORD removed Israel out of His sight, as He spoke by the hand of all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria, unto this day.
17:24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
DID YOU NOTICE THE INTENTIONAL SWITCH OF PEOPLE GROUPS = TEN TRIBES TO EXILED TO ASSYRIA, While, MEN OF ASSYRIA WERE COLONIZED IN SAMARIA
17:25 And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD; therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
17:26 Wherefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying: ‘The nations which thou hast carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land; therefore He hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.’
17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying: ‘Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.’
17:28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
DID YOU NOTICE A HEBREW PRIEST IS SENT TO THE ASSYRIANS NOW DWELLING IN SAMARIA TO STOP THE LIONS FROM KILLING THEM AND TO TEACH THEM THE MANNER OF THE GOD OF THE LAND OF SAMARIA.
17:29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance: Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary: “5524. Cukkowth benowth … booths of (the) daughters; brothels, i.e. idolatrous tents for impure purposes: —Succoth-benoth.”
Nergal, Mesopotamian (Sumerian and Babylonian-Akkadian) [Iraq}, was a chthonic underworld god, worshipped from c. 3500 BC to 200 BC. His centers of worship were Kuthu and Tarbisu. He was the son of Enlil and Ninlil and the consort of the underworld goddess Ereskigal. He is depicted as the god of war and sudden death as well as the Emeslam. He is usually shown as a bearded figure emerging from the ground carrying a double-edged mace-scimitar typically embellished with lion heads. By the Hellenic period he is identified with the god Hercules.
and the men of Hamath made Ashima, In the Hebrew Bible, Ashima is one of several deities protecting the individual cities of Samaria who are mentioned specifically by name in 2 Kings 17:30. From the scribes’ point of view the cities should not have been making cult images (“idols”), because they had agreed to worship the God of the Israelites that had once lived in the land, as described in some detail in the 2 Kings 17:17:31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz, (the barker), a deity of the Avites, introduced by them into Samaria in the time of Shalmaneser. (2 Kings 17:31 ) The rabbins derived the name from a Hebrew root nabach , “to bark,” and hence assigned to it the figure of a dog, or a dog-headed man. The Egyptians worshipped the dog. Some indications of this worship have been found in Syria , a colossal figure of a dog having formerly stood at a point between Berytus and Tripolis.
17:32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
17:33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
17:34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom He named Israel;
17:35 with whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying: ‘Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow down to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them;
17:36 but the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, Him shall ye fear, and Him shall ye worship, and to Him shall ye sacrifice;
17:37 and the statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which He wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods;
17:38 and the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods;
17:39 but the LORD your God shall ye fear; and He will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.’
17:40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
17:41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children’s children, as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.