Presents
Pamphlet #7041
House of Israel Never Returned
They did not return to Palestine
with the Jews in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, as some erroneously believe.
Those who returned to rebuild
the temple and restore worship in Jerusalem at that time, 70 years after
Judah's captivity, were only those of the House of Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar
had carried to Babylon.
Note well these facts.
1.In 721 BC Israel was "carried
away out of their own land to Assyria" (II Kings :23). They were soon all
removed
completely.
There was none left but the tribe of Judah only" (II Kings 17:18). Judah,
only, remained.
2.More than 130 years later,
Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon carried the Jews (Judah) who only remained in
the
Promised
Land away to Babylon. So the House of Israel did not dwell in the Promised
Land at the time of this
captivity
of Judah.
3.Those who returned to Palestine
to rebuild the temple and restore worship 70 years after Judah's captivity
were
all
of the House of Judah, all Jews, all of those whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried
away. They returned again
"unto
Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city"
(Ezra 2:1). Only those of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and
Levi,
who constituted the house of Judah returned at that time (Ezra 1:5).
..."every
one unto his city" Note: non of those
cities, returned to, was in Israel, all returned ..."unto
Jerusalem and Judah.
Consequently those in Jerusalem
in the time of Christ were of these three tribes, not of the House of Israel,
except for those few individuals of the other tribes who joined Judah for
religious reasons after the nation divided into two nations upon the death
of Solomon.
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