The present article is confined to the forcible deportation of the Jew; from their native land, and their forcible detention, under the Assyrian or Babylonian kings. Captives of Israel. --The kingdom of Israel was invaded by three or four successive kings of Assyria. Pul or Surdanapalus, according to Rawlinson, imposed a tribute (B.C. 771 or 712), Rawl.) upon Menahem. (2 Kings 15:19) and 1Chr 5:26 Tiglath-pileser carried away (B.C. 740) the trans-Jordanic tribes, (1 Chronicles 5:26) and the inhabitants of Galilee, (2 Kings 15:29) comp. Isai 9:1 To Assyria. Shalmaneser twice invaded, (2 Kings 17:3,5) the kingdom which remained to Hoshea, took Samaria (B.C. 721) after a siege of three years, and carried Israel away into Assyria. This was the end of the kingdom of the ten tribes of Israel. Captivities of Judah .--Sennacherib (B.C. 713) is stated to have carried into Assyria 200,000 captives from the Jewish cities which he took. (2 Kings 18:13) Nebuchadnezzar, in the first half of his reign (B.C. 606-562), repeatedly invaded Judea, besieged Jerusalem, carried away the inhabitants to Babylon, and destroyed the temple. The 70 years of captivity predicted by Jeremiah, (Jeremiah 25:12) are dated by Prideaux from B.C. 606. The captivity of Ezekiel dates from B.C. 598, when that prophet, like Mordecai the uncle of Esther (Esther 2:6) accompanied Jehoiachin. The captives were treated not as slaves but as colonists. The Babylonian captivity was brought to a close by the decree, (Ezra 1:2) of Cyrus (B.C. 536), and the return of a portion of the nation under Sheshbazzar or Zerubbabel (B.C. 535), Ezra (B.C. 458) and Nehemiah (B.C. 445). Those who were left in Assyria, (Esther 8:9,11) and kept up their national distinctions, were known as The Dispersion. (John 7:35; 1:1; James 1:1) The lost tribes. --Many attempts have been made to discover the ten tribes existing as a distinct community; but though history bears no witness of the present distinct existence, it enables us to track the footsteps of the departing race in four directions after the time of the Captivity.

1. Some returned and mixed with the Jews. (Luke 2:36; Philemon 3:5) etc.
2. Some were left in Samaria, mingled with the Samaritans, (Ezra 6:21; John 4:12) and became bitter enemies of the Jews.
3. Many remained in Assyria, and were recognized as an integral part of the Dispersion; see (Acts 2:1; 26:7)
4. Most, probably, apostatized in Assyria, adopted the usages and idolatry of the nations among whom they were planted, and became wholly swallowed up in them.

The Child Jesus Brought from Egypt to Nazareth.
... After the captivities and the return of Judah from Babylon the phrase resumed its ...
in the very beginning of his reign he massacred three thousand Jews at once ...
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The Captivity of Judah.
... This period is calculated to bring great discouragement to the Jews. ... prophet's call
and the incidents between the first and the second captivities; they then ...
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The Apology of Aristides as it is Preserved in the History of ...
... being the worshippers of the gods acknowledged among you, and Jews, and Christians. ...
lot of mankind to have frequent wars and slaughters and bitter captivities. ...
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The Fourth Book
... Call his name, Not Beloved." And speaking to the Jews themselves: "You ... Our miseries,
our infirmities, our overthrow, our captivities and the punishments of our ...
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The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations.
... Upon his delivery by the angel "from all the expectation of the people of the Jews,"
he "went ... The church was built to guard the emblems of the two captivities. ...
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1 Thessalonians iv. 15-17
... were their sufferings in Palestine, famines, pestilences, wars, captivities, under
the ... sodden their own children." (Lamentations 4:10.) The Jews then suffered ...
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How Much is the Bible Worth?
... nation's life, in its privileges and its vicissitudes, its captivities and its ... and
noble Romans"the ethical and spiritual development of the Jews had reached ...
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CHAP. I. -II. 3 (II. 1).
... and Babylonish captivities, wandered about the country in sorrow and misery, as
upon those who were carried away? Can the circumstance that Jews are even now ...
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Sennacherib (705-681 BC )
... that the Jewish historian Demetrios considered the captivities under Nebuchadrezzar ...
[Illustration: 029.jpg SENNACHERIB RECEIVING THE SUBMISSIONS OF THE JEWS]. ...
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Appendix ix. List of Old Testament Passages Messianically Applied ...
... words in which the Evangelists describe the mocking behaviour of the Jews at the ...
Israel was accomplished by man, and was followed by fresh captivities, but in ...
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