Where are the 10 tribes?

Answer 1

After they were allowed to return to their homeland to rebuild the temple, the majority of the ten tribes went to the lands of the north. They will remain unknown to the rest of the world until it is time for them to return to their homeland. They will bring with them their own records in which we will have access to.

Answer 2

A:The so-called ten lost tribes are supposedly remnants of the Israelites who were deported from Israel after its destruction in 722 BCE. Some pious believers find it hard to imagine that the Israelites who were deported from Israel were absorbed by the native populations of the regions they were deported to, such as Syria, Iraq and Jordan, and imagine that somewhere in the world we will find a group of people who can be identified as descendants of those Israelites. The true descendants of the Israelites who were deported will be found among the people of Syria, Iraq, Jordan and so on.

Those who fled south into Judah were absorbed into the Judahite population and their descendants will be found among the Jews of today.

Those who fled farther south into Egypt appear to have maintained their ethnic identity for a time, but were eventually absorbed into the Jewish diaspora and their descendants will be found among the Jews of today.

Finally, not all the Israelites were deported and there were many who remained in the new Assyrian province of Samaria, particularly in rural areas. Their descendants merged with the peoples whom the Assyrians brought into Samaria, eventually becoming the Samarians or Samaritans of the New Testament. The Samaritans adopted a primitive form of monotheistic Judaism and a small group of them still exists in modern Israel, but most were eventually absorbed into mainstream Judaism and their descendants will be found among the Jews of today.

Answer:

The Ten Tribes were carried off to Assyria and continued on to points unknown, 133 years before the exile of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin to Babylonia. The Ten Tribes didn't return.
The great majority of Jews today, some 80% or so, are descended from the tribe of Judah (plus converts and descendents of converts). The remaining 20% include Levites (from the tribe of Levi), Cohanim (also a part of the Levites), the entire Tribe of Benjamin, and a small percentage from every one of the remaining tribes.(When the Ten Tribes were carried off into Assyria and didn't return, a few of them had already mixed into the tribe of Judah before that, through marriage. Also, the Talmud relates [Megillah 14b] that, one century after the Ten Tribes were exiled [and their location was still known], Jeremiah journeyed to where they were and brought some of them back to Judea. Thus, today's Jewry includes a small percentage of every one of the Lost Tribes. See for example the Talmud, Pesachim 4a.)
As to the location of the bulk of the lost Ten Tribes, because of the lack of a continuous tradition in this particular matter, we can only speculate. Some well-known (and scientifically debunked) claims, such as the suggestion that the Native Americans or African Americans are the Lost Israelite Tribes, we can confidently dismiss offhand. Other claims, such as that which has been suggested concerning the Pathani (Pashtun), are less far-fetched but must for the time being remain nothing more than a guess.

Answer 3

The simple answer is that no one knows. It is a hotly debated topic in Judaism. The answer is that they probably ended up somewhere in the Middle East; geographically this is the answer that makes the most sense according to many views. Theories range from the native Americans being a lost tribe, and even the Japanese. However genetic studies have shown, conclusively, that most Japanese are indeed Japanese, or of Korean (Yayoi), Ainu or Jomon ancestry, and that they do not have a genetic background connected in any way shape or form to the near east.

Answer:When they were carried into captivity (traditional date: 555 BCE), the Ten Tribes were brought at first to Assyria, but later spread further afield. Fanciful notions which were put forth centuries ago (such as identifying the Ten Tribes with the Native Americans, Irish or Japanese) may be ignored. Less unreasonable are reports linking the Ten Tribes with groups in Afghanistan or the Arabian peninsula (for example). But these remain moot until the Future Redemption and are not dwelt upon in Judaism today.

It should be noted that we Jews, descendants of Judah, do possess among us small percentages of every one of the other eleven Tribes, since there was a slight amount of intermingling before the two Kingdoms separated. See for example the Talmud, Pesachim 4a.

Answer:

The study of this is involved and lengthy, with evidence found in both the Bible and world history. In an attempt to keep it short, however:

WHO the "Lost Ten Tribes" of Israel were: they were the majority of the twelve tribes [ten of them] who split from the rulership of the Jewish Kingdom or House of Judah over them following the death of King Solomon. This is detailed in I Kings 12.

These separated tribes [the House or Kingdom of Israel], with their own king, perverted God's laws and Sabbaths... and adopted the gods, customs and traditions of the nations around them... which prompted God over time to both warn them to repent of it, and eventually carry them away in captivity and scattered among the nations by the Assyrian Empire.

Unlike the Jews [the Kingdom of Judah] who remained, yet who would go into Babylonian captivity some 130 years later, and return after 70 years -- the House of Israel [the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel] NEVER RETURNED to their homeland in the Middle East -- actually being absorbed among the Gentile nations to such an extent, that their descendants thought of themselves as Gentiles, also.

By the time of Christ's earthly ministry... the descendants of these "lost tribes," moving and migrating among the Assyrians in constant conflict with the up-and-coming Babylonian Empire and other war-like nations, were developing into their own nations and national identities. They were still extant, primarily, in the regions north of Judaea... Asia Minor and points north.

It was THESE [spiritually] LOST TRIBES towhom Jesus sent His disciples with the Good News [gospel] of the coming Kingdom of God. Not to the Gentiles!

Paul was sent to the Gentiles.

"...GO NOT INTO THE WAY OF THE GENTILES, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye NOT: but GO RATHER TO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL." (Matt.10:5-6)

For the sake of simplicity to this answer... it's from THIS New Testament command by Christ that the modern day identities of the Lost Ten Tribes may be gleaned.

From the time Jesus ascended into heaven... and the twelve apostles "disappeared" from the biblical account -- not being told in the Bible where they went; we may look to secular historical accounts, to discover what nations on what continents in the immediate centuries following their disappearance "emerged in the world PROFESSING THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST!"

It's reasonable to assume that whoever these surfacing Christ-professing nations were... are the descendants of the "Lost Ten Tribes" to whom Jesus sent His disciples.

History bears out that "these nations professing the Christian Religion" emerged essentially throughout a young EUROPE, BRITISH ISLES and the "abundantly blessed, independent and growing" THIRTEEN ORIGINAL BRITISH COLONIES in the AMERICAS!

These modern nations of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel are identifiable through their one time, early on, staunch profession of the name of Jesus Christ... despite the fact that their dwindling faith in that name in these latter days also identifies them as being yet ignorant of their heritage... and once more becoming lost.