| Show the ten tribes of israel we behave leave been ankud the ques tion i Is it believed boli oved by tal acho latter day saints that the ton tribes of israel are somewhere by the ip s elves as it a people or sc scattered aLtered and mixed with other people and nations our an answer ivr to alit qu question i 1 this it is beleve d by tho the lat tor ter day saints saints that 4 ifal al the tribes of israel have buen been s scattered among i many other nu bohs do n s and exist ex in such scattered battered condition at the present time also that it a body or people of tile the ten tell tribes ibos of 41 its as 4 a distinct and he nation are somewhere north a place unknown to tho lie rest of oatho effic world this belief is based upon 1 profane rofia n e a and n d sacred history and an chent andino and modern dern revelation tho people called israel were descendants of Abri abraham diani ali ro I 1 his grandson jacob alio vay ill al so called israel gen c 32 y 38 ali r i i is s jacob I 1 b or israel biad twelve e sous sons efrom whom sprang 0 ibo t twelve tribes of israel Is 1 1 t daring alie r reigns eign s of kings david davi d and solomon alie king dom ot of israel wils waa bilu one of the most prosperous and powerful f u I 1 of its time but under tinder am all the son sol of 01 solomona Solomo nf ten tell of the old twelve tribes teo and a ii d set got up a separate coviel government choosing joi jeroboam 0 b oani J fo for their king ali and d was called ai alie e k king i ng dom doin of israel 1 tile of other h 1 i two tribes constituted alie kingdom cilla 7 1 of juda Judah I 1 aa a A occupied t the alc southern cartr part of palo palestine stille while the I 1 kingdom of kr israel oc aupied the northern nOri I 1 hern ern parti part i of I 1 I 1 that country r t tile kingdom allmain bained it a national existence c 0 fo i ra r a period perio d of about years from tive the time lillie of them i separation till tile the it assyrian syrian captivity but 1 had i ad many wars during that time and antin many y ot of the people were taken captive by the neighbor boring nations and sold into alv slavery to other natio nations ns in B C celeser Pe leser king of assyria invaded ahe ki kingdom of israel and carried away tile the tribes living aas east t ofellie jordan and in I 1 galileo galilee but the fill final it ovet overt overthrow 11 hiow r 0 nv of the king kingdom doin caino came 13 0 J when the assyrian king af after r it a three years siege took samaria the capital and cal carried tied the alie people clap captive tive to ass assyria y ria ln in bible Iii history story we aie in in formed that the king of Assy assyria carried israel away i into lao assyria and placed them it in ha lah lab and in iii harbor by the clio river ri ver of goza goban and in the of the clio modes medes media aledia the land pf af the modes medes lay to the north of assyria proper bracing Mn cing country lying on oil the SOUIl leril border of the caspian sea as far west as abe river araxes having traced tracos ali the e ton ten tribes to media the next question is what has become ot of them for they are not to be found fi ip whitt hu t land toa to iy ay 1 Y wo we haye have before S 14 stated added that clint the Latt latter lattard erd day ity saints deheve that ho ten tribes stilt 1 exist 1 it is also aso their befit beauf f t that those hose tribes it are r 6 lt in I 1 th I 1 1 north somewhere where alliy v will be discovered in hi th ard own duo due giue aid iti in his II 11 is it up 1 pointed any maicy ally al l of ow an all ci eilt point to nn all plainly foretold foret uld tid files fac bif die anost deti dennite nite word on oil tha 01 t subject gien py yally any of th olf till an chent w writers ro the asiat asiatic ic con coil divent is contained in hl I 1 esdras ES eddeas iras IL book of h apocrypha ft EA dr dras is alif T joerein 11 e I 1 is is iven it a i i vision and its interpretation i 4 a as s fo follows 11 0 w s s ia and whereas thou ti that at he feathered an coffier k ii able people unto hi him in those 11 OSO 11 are bial the to ten n tribes which were vere carl car ric ried d away captives out or of their own land in the alio time of if oseas Osea 14 the king whom Shalma naser the king kin of assyria took calp cap 1 tive five all and d crossed them thein beyo beyond nV the river so were they brough brought t k into another land hand ant u they to took ol 01 tilis this coll counsel lisel among 11 ill them 4 solves selves that eliat they would leave th tho multitude of the clio heathen go forth ui unto to the furoli further 0 ir coun J try where never nc vc r nian m in dwelt that they might there keep v their statutes which they kept in their own land aai and the they y entered in at clio narrows passage of the ri river var U Euphra rl i altes tesA k for tho the most high then showed th them eill signs fit and id stayed staved tho springs odthe of alie flood till they vere nere passed over for through the lie country there was great jour ney evea of a year yeal an and d a ii half al f uld and the same region is called 1 A rs it r 0 t I 1 i then dwelt they t there 1111 till aie lauer tinia tima and then thell they came C i I 1 D 0 forth fo 1111 1 again a gai 11 the most Alos high tHigh shall lioi hold still the springs of tile river again li 11 lit dt they may in ay go g through ct fore e cawest thou tile the multitude V I 1 peaceable jea ceable I 1 the furt lier country where 1 n never e va r man inan dwelt dael could only be found in ill the che north southern asia W was 11 s already tile the seat or of a ancient civilize civi liza tion egypt in northern africa and europe was rapidly filling with w J 01 the future futi ire rulers 1111 lera of the world I 1 I 1 1 thy giad die no altern aeterna a tivo tive hut but to turn t their 11 ail faces n northward 0 wn rd i the dis distance talice in a direct line hi i frodi fr oui tile the ared C crossing G 1 0 jy of tile the euphrates rates to the coast of in bufi to esdras a year and a liula was VM consumed id in ill the lite journ journey which is an all evidence that they wore were encumbered with fainie families lies and cattle who could only tr travel ael slowly fuld and for whom many resting places had bild to he be found chero they could recuperate it is highly gilly probable that like modern israel in lier her journey d they oley planted ted tel tern n horary colonies by tile the where the weary rested all and crops crop were raised for future use 11 1 was shown to esdras that those people should come out from frothi that eliat coul country itry i in n tile the druer times and find th e lord would p prepare the way ya before them like as I ile he le didi did when ile he led them thell thither this statement by JI Idras is i in 1 1 harmony k I 1 1 0 1 Y with modern revolution revelation to which we now ilow call atten attention tio 1 n to be contin tied aed |
