After 2,700 Years, They Finally Returned…

Added: 2026-05-10

[00:00:00]Did you know that in India there is a small tribe which claims to be the descendants of the Asian tribe of Manassa? They call themselves Beni Manashi which means the sons of Manassa.

[00:00:11]Okay, but how did they end up in India and who are they exactly? Well, it's a long story but let me try to explain.

[00:00:19]When the Assyrian Empire invaded the Levant, they decimated the northern kingdom of Israel. The Assyrian army was brutal, destroying every city on its path. Many historians agree that Assyria was the first real empire of the world.

[00:00:36]An empire that mastered the art of war, creating siege weapons never seen before. the ancient tanks, you could say, that allowed them to conquer large cities, causing maximum pain and suffering to everybody who stood on their way. But the Assyrians also had a special strategy for the people and lands they have conquered. You see, after they subdued a particular nation, they employed a massive deportation strategy. Thousands upon thousands of people were taken out of their homeland and planted in a foreign land. This strategy has affected especially the people from the 10 northern tribes of Israel. Therefore, the tribe of Benjamin, Dan, Ephraim, Manasseh, remember Manasseh, Asher, Zebulun, Ishahar, Napali, God and Reuben. And often you will hear that those tribes are the 10 lost tribes of Israel. But are they really lost? You see, I'm going to argue that not necessarily. And this is an important issue because a lot of people are asking, how do we know that the modern people of Israel are descendants of the ancient people from the Bible? Who are they and how do we know? Who are those people in 2026?

[00:02:07]Who are his descendants now? And how do we know who they are? But how do we know it's the same people?

[00:02:12]>> Okay, so this set of questions comes from an interview that Tucker Carson did with Mike Huckabe. And the video has almost 5 million views. And one of the main issues that Tucker is raising in this interview is that how do we know that the modern people of Israel are the same as the ancient people from the Bible? And of course, Tucker by asking those questions, he's not asking innocent questions because he wants to know. He's actually has a plan behind it. and he wants to seed doubt that in fact you can't put an equal sign between the ancient people of Israel and the modern Jewish people that live today in Israel. However, we must understand that this is nothing new. It's a recycling of a debunked theory and selling it as groundbreaking. this revelation in the book the 13 tribe by Arthur Costler we find the same arguments the same questions that Tucker Carson is using and this theory is additionally reinforced later by Eran Elhayek who claims that you can genetically prove that the Jewish people in Europe do not have their ancestry in the Holy Land. So basically to summarize the claims of the book, it is proposing that the Jews from the Eastern Europe come not from Israel but from an empire that developed in the sixth and 7th century. And supposedly the origin of the modern Jewish people is from the Khazar kaganate.

[00:03:58]So from ancient Turic people that develop an empire that lasted for over three centuries. Now the reason why this theory became so popular is that there are some sources that indicate that at some point in its existence the whole empire became Jewish. So converted to Judaism. And guess what guys? I decided to tackle all of those issues of this very complicated topic. So, I'm going to talk about everything about the supposedly 10 lost tribes of Israel. I'm going to talk about who are the people of God according to the Bible. And I'm going to talk about conspiracy theories as to claiming that the modern Jews are not the Jews or the people of Israel from the Bible. But to do that, I have to start from the beginning. I have to start from the basics. But I promise you that by the end of this video, if you stay with me, a lot of things will clear up for you. And I hope you will have good understanding of a lot of those issues. But before we begin, please please don't forget to give a like to this video, hit that bell button, and subscribe to the channel. This is really important because I want this video to reach as many people as possible. So if you can do this, I will be very very grateful. But now let's start our episode. From modern day Iraq to modern day Egypt to this people, the Jews, to Abrams, actually not to the to Abram's descendants as it says in Genesis 15.

[00:05:43]>> Okay, so this is where we're going to start. Genesis 15. On that day, the Lord made a covenant with Abraham, saying, "To your descendants, I have given this land from the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates."

[00:06:00]>> Okay, so first fact, the Bible doesn't say the Nile River as Stacker claims.

[00:06:05]>> Genesis 15 says it's the Euphrates to the Nile >> from the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. So the Bible doesn't say the river Nile. It can mean the River Nile, but it doesn't say that. This is important because details matter. If you want to know more about the borders of the promised land, I have a video where I discuss this in more detail. So I will leave a link in the description of this video for you to check out. Okay. So there are some questions we need to ask. First of all, who is Abram? Is he a Jew? Well, certainly not because the tribe of Judah doesn't exist at that time. And this is where that term comes from. The tribe of Judah comes from the son of Jacob, Judah. And the first people you can actually call Jews are the people from the tribe of Judah. But it doesn't mean that today the title Jewish is exclusively for the people from the tribe of Judah.

[00:07:07]I will explain later in the video. So, we got that covered, but we still haven't answered the question, who is Abraham? Maybe he's an Israelite. Well, no, because the term the sons of Israel refers for the first time to the sons of Jacob.

[00:07:24]>> He said, "Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel, that you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed." Okay. So, Jacob is called Israel and Jacob is the son of Isaac and Isaac is the son of Abraham. Jacob has 12 sons and one daughter. Three sons of Jacob are very special here. So, Levi, Judah, and Joseph. Levi is special because it's a priestly tribe, meaning that they do not inherit any part of the land like the other tribes, but they should live in priestly cities and carry on the ministry of being priests for the people. Judah is special because it's a messianic tribe, meaning that from this tribe, a Messiah will come according to the prophecies. And the last one, Joseph, is special because he has two sons that receive portions of the land.

[00:08:22]Manasseh and Ephraim receive portions of the land instead of Levy and Joseph.

[00:08:28]Levy doesn't receive because it's a priestly tribe and they have priestly cities. And Joseph because of his faithfulness receives the double portion of the land through his sons Manasseh and Ephraim. And that's why when you look at the distribution of the land according to the Bible, you will not see the tribe of Levy and you will not see the tribe of Joseph. So you could say that every member of the tribe could be called an Israelite because they are the sons of Jacob who was called Israel. But the term an Israelite really started functioning when you had the kingdom of Israel. Therefore, around 11th century BC, this is the time when the first king of Israel, Saul, unites the tribes and the nation starts to function as a kingdom. Okay. So, who is Abraham? If he is not a Jew, if he is not an Israelite, who is he? Well, according to the Bible, Abraham is a Semite. We read in the Bible that Abram leaves the Ur of the Calaldanss and travels to a land that God tells him to go, the promised land, the land we know today as Israel. Why is Abraham called a Semite? Well, because he is a descendant of Shem, one of Noah's sons who become the fathers of all humanity. And if you look closely, Abraham begins his journey to the promised land from the territory that Shem inherited. Okay? So now please focus because I want to make a very important point. It is a very simple and logical point. But unfortunately a lot of people don't understand this. So here it goes. Being a descendant of Abraham doesn't make you Jewish doesn't make you Israelite, doesn't make you Israeli, and it doesn't even have to give you the right to the land. And let me explain why this is true. So Abraham didn't just have one son, Isaac. He didn't even have two sons, Isaac and Ishmael, which many people believe. But in fact, he had eight sons. After Sarah died, he had additional six sons with Cura. We read about it in Genesis 25.

[00:11:07]But what is very important is that although Abraham had many sons, many descendants, there is only one son of the promise and that's Isaac who inherits all the promises given to Abraham.

[00:11:23]>> Do not go down to Egypt. Dwell in the land of which I shall tell you. Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.

[00:11:44]>> Okay. So Isaac is the one he inherits the promise that was given to Abraham and the other sons that Abraham had do not receive the same promise. And just to remind you, Isaac is before the creation of Israel and before the creation of the Jewish people. So he is not an Israelite and he's not a Jewish person. So now following the biblical narrative, Isaac has two sons, Esau and Jacob. But again, only one of them is the son of the promise, and that's Jacob. I am the Lord, the God of Abraham, your father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie, I will give to you and to your offspring. So, we have an extension of the land promise that was given to Isaac and now it is given to Jacob, who as we read earlier was renamed from Jacob to Israel. So, to summarize, being the son of Abraham doesn't make you Jewish, doesn't make you an Israelite. Being the son of Isaac doesn't make you Jewish. Doesn't make you an Israelite. But being the son of Jacob today, you could say that you're Jewish. And in those days, you could say you're the son of Israel because Jacob was renamed from Jacob to Israel. Okay.

[00:13:08]So I'm sorry I spent so much time on this and we will move forward now quickly but it was very important to establish the foundation on which we will build on. So from the 12 sons of Jacob, 12 tribes of Israel were created.

[00:13:27]The 12 tribes made up a nation but they didn't have a country yet because they didn't own the land yet. They were still wandering in the desert. But that was about to change. In the book of Joshua, we read of the different parts of the promised land that each tribe was supposed to inherit. And so the conquest begins because it's not like they're going to receive the land for free. They had to fight for it. And it was quite brutal. But right away you can see that the people of Israel did not conquer all the territories they were supposed to.

[00:14:08]Some tribes like Dan, Asher, Naftali didn't conquer any of the territories they were supposed to. The Bible presents disobedience and lack of faith as the reasons why the Israelites did not conquer all the land that was promised. And that became a huge problem in the future because the nations that were around this territory were not conquered and they caused a lot of trouble. Now this problem continued until the reign of King David who finally defeated all those nations and conquered all the territories that were promised to Israel. Now, if you're interested more in this part of the story, I have a special video dedicated to this period of time. So, make sure you check it out. I will leave a link in the description of this video. Before we continue, I hope you enjoy this material. It's custommade. It's made by a human. It's made by me. It's not made by a machine, by AI. So, it takes a lot of time, but I hope you enjoy this style of creation. And the best way to support me and the channel is through Patreon and PayPal. I will leave links in the description of this video and it really is the best way because it goes directly to me. The other way is YouTube members.

[00:15:25]You can become a YouTube member. This is probably the easiest way, but YouTube keeps a lot of the revenue. Anyways, I am very, very thankful for everybody because you guys keep me going. Now, let's continue with the video. Okay, let's do now a quick summary of the history of the kingdom of Israel. So, as we already mentioned, around the middle of the 11th century BC, Saul becomes the king of Israel and unites the tribes, creating a kingdom. Then comes King David, who becomes the second king of Israel and conquers a lot of the territories. But there is still more territory to conquer. And this is done by David's son Solomon. And guys, look at this. The borders of this kingdom end on two rivers. One is the Euphrates River and the other one is the river of Egypt, sometimes called Wadi Elarish.

[00:16:24]But as we look at this, we can't forget about the promise given to Abraham from the river of Euphrates to the river of Egypt. That was the promise. And now over a thousand years later, his great great great grandson is owning is controlling all the territory promised to Abraham. This is incredible. Okay. So here you can see the size of the different kingdoms compared to each other. So Solomon, David and Saul. And really the reign of King Solomon is the peak of the kingdom of Israel, the first kingdom. Because after Solomon's death, things get worse. Not only the kingdom significantly shrinks, but also divides.

[00:17:17]It divides into Israel and Judah. What this does is of course first of all it weakens the kingdom but it also develops two different people groups. The people of Judah and the people of Israel. So you can see that the 10 tribes beside Judah and Simon create one nation you could say. And this is later known as the kingdom of Israel. And at the same time, Judah and Simeon unite to create the kingdom of Judah. The two kingdoms have capitals. The capital of Judah is Jerusalem and the capital of Israel is the ancient city of Samaria. But this is also a time of the great empires. And the fate of the northern kingdom will be determined by a confrontation with the first great empire, Assyria. And as we discussed, this not only resulted in a massive destruction of the northern kingdom of Israel, but also a giant deportation campaign. But before we will discuss what happened to those deported people of the northern Israel, there is something we must mention. Before the Assyrian army came, there was a massive migration from the north of Israel to the kingdom of Judah, especially to the city of Jerusalem. The first major migration happened under King Assa of which we read in the second book of Chronicles 15. And then there was another one even greater one under King Hezekiah. And the migration was so big that King Hezekiah had to build another wall to protect the new neighborhood that was created by the people that migrated from north Israel. This was a time of major development in Jerusalem.

[00:19:21]After learning that San Herb, king of Assyria, is going to come and invade Judah, Hezekiah immediately began defensive preparations. He stopped the flow of water outside the city. He repaired and strengthened the existing walls. He built an outer secondary wall.

[00:19:42]He reinforced Milo. and he made many weapons and shields. It is estimated that the population of Jerusalem has tripled during that time from 40,000 people living in Jerusalem before this migration to 120 or even 150,000 people under Hezekiah reign. And the cool thing about this is that today in Jerusalem we can find evidence of those construction projects. So for example in the Jewish quarter of the old city next to the Hurva synagogue we can see parts of the wall that Hezekiah built. That's right.

[00:20:28]The Bible is true. In the second book of Chronicles chapter 32, we read of the construction projects by Hezekiah. And today we find remains of a wall from that time period. So this is an incredible find. And the wall is called the broad wall because it's very broad.

[00:20:47]It's huge. This was a serious wall. Now if you haven't been to the broad wall, I do have a video about visiting this place and I will put it on my Patreon and YouTube members site. So if you want to check it out, you can do it. Um, but it's going to be only for the patrons and YouTube members. If you support me by PayPal, just send me an email and I'll also show you this video. So, Jerusalem has increased in size quite a bit from the time of David when that became the capital of Israel and then it became a little bit bigger under Solomon. But under King Hezekiah, it was much much bigger. And one of the reasons is the massive migration from northern Israel. But there is also a fascinating story from that time period. You see, the king of Assyria, San Herb, he didn't just want to conquer the north of Israel. He had an appetite for Judah also. But then something really mysterious has happened of which we read in the Bible. So we read that this huge army of Assyria was laying a siege on Jerusalem. And for that experienced army, despite the reinforcements made by Hezekiah, it would be a piece of cake to take Jerusalem. But as the Assyrian army was getting ready to take the city by force, we read that God sent an angel that killed the entire army.

[00:22:33]185,000 men in the Assyrian camp died that night. Scary stuff, huh? But is it true?

[00:22:42]Well, the Bible says that, but is there any other evidence that might point that something like that happened? Well, yes and no. Let me explain.

[00:22:56]For many years, historians thought that the story was just a fairy tale in the Bible. But that changed in 1830.

[00:23:06]That year, a major discovery was found in Iraq. Archaeologists have found artifacts and structures that provide us some more light into ancient Assyria.

[00:23:21]The only ruins of the palace of Sinacre were found filled with reliefs that presented the destruction the king has done to the ancient city of Lahish in Judah. But they also found the socalled Sacripp.

[00:23:41]Amazingly, this hexagon artifact created by Sinacre records the same campaign we read about in the Bible. It is written in Aadian language, but it matches the narrative we find in the Bible. So we can find a list of cities of Judah and Israel that Sinak proudly presents as being destroyed. But when we get to Jerusalem, suddenly the narrative changes and we read mysterious words.

[00:24:16]Hezekiah himself like a caged bird, I shut up in Jerusalem, his royal city. Of course, the proud king would never write that he was humiliated, his army destroyed, and he was forced to return to Nineveh. But at least he did not lie that Jerusalem was destroyed. The ancient Aadian records don't provide us with the information as to why Sacri returned to Nineveh, but we have that extra information in the Bible. If the first part is true, we can be confident that the second one is also true. Sinak had a taste of the power of the God of Israel. But instead of humbling himself, he returned to Nineveh to his old ways and worshiping false gods. And that was his end. He was murdered in one of the pagan temples. And that was the end of this great ruler. And today, even though Assyria at that time was the greatest empire in the world, today you will not find a country called Assyria. But you will find a country called Israel. So returning to the story and what has happened to the 10 tribes of Israel, we mentioned that a lot of them have found shelter in Judah and that way survived.

[00:25:54]But we can't deny the fact that a lot of people was taken as slaves to Assyria.

[00:26:01]Many of the deported people did not leave once Assyria collapsed, but they continued to live in exile forming distinct communities. And there is biblical, cultural, and historical evidence for this. Okay. So, first let's look at the Bible. In the book of Ezra and Nhemiah, we read about the return of people from the exile. This is much later in time. This is already the Persian Empire. And the Jewish people who return rebuild the city and the temple that was destroyed by the Babylonian Empire. And when the temple was finally rebuilt, we read that the sacrifices to God were once again renewed. And in Ezra 6:17, we read that the priests sacrificed 12 goats according to the number of the tribes of Israel. This is a clear indication that the identity of the 10 tribes was not forgotten. Additionally, Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7 lists some of the people and the towns they originated from. And if you look at some of those towns, you can clearly see that they were located outside the territory of Judah. So we have a city located on the territory of the tribe of God on the territory of Benjamin, Dan and Ephraim. So at that time they knew people that came from that territories and that gives us an idea that they also knew people that were from other tribes of the northern kingdom of Israel. Additionally in the New Testament we read of a person called Anna who never left the temple worshiped there and fasted. And the fascinating thing is that she was from the tribe of Asher. So her heritage went back not to the tribe of Judah but one of the 10 tribes of Israel. And Asher was a northern tribe very far from the tribe of Judah. Okay. But there are also other sources outside the Bible that also indicate that the people from the 10 tribes of Israel did not lose their identity. So for example, the book of Tobit records a story from the city of Nimrude under the reign of Shalamear V where a pious Jew by the name of Tobit is an Israelite from the tribe of Naftali and he strictly observing the law of Moses. He pays his tithes, prays to the God of Israel, avoids gentile food and buries the dead according to Jewish customs. And again, if we look at our map, we can see that the tribe of Naftali is one of the 10 tribes of Israel. Again, a northern tribe. Okay.

[00:29:13]So, from Nimrod, we will now move to Nineveh, which is located in today's city of Mosul. This is where you will find the ancient ruins of the city of Nineveh. And here and in other cities of the former Assyrian Empire, people have found administrative and legal documents from the 8th and 7th centuries where certain people mentioned in those documents have names that contain a theotropic element.

[00:29:49]So they end in Yahw, Yahoo, Yama, which is an Iadian transcription for the Hebrew name of God. And this tradition of naming your children with that ending, remembering the God of Israel is extremely rare of the people of Judah, but the archaeological and historical evidence show it was quite popular in Assyria. So just to give you a few examples, we read of Nadi Yahu. His name means the Lord has been generous and he's a chariot driver. We read of Akiyahu which means Lord is my brother and he's an archer. Then we read about Neryahu meaning my lamp is Lord. Then we read of Pekk which is the same name as the biblical king of Israel and he's a village manager in the Goan region. And lastly just to give you another example Azri Yahu Lord is my help and he's a military officer. So as you could see there is biblical, cultural, historical and archaeological evidence that the 10 tribes of Israel were never fully lost.

[00:31:11]And that's why you have communities like the Benet Manashi in India that have a distinct identity of belonging to Israel. Despite being separated from the land for thousands of years, they still understand who they are. And that's the biggest miracle about the nation of Israel. Today, Israel is a mixture of different people from all around the world. They are all different but they all belong to one family to one nation to one land to one God.

[00:31:54]In my next video we will continue because we have just begun this story.

[00:32:00]We have to talk about the Babylonian exile. We have to talk about the Persian Empire and how that impacted the Jewish people. And of course, we will talk about other exiles that happened in Jewish history, especially the one under the Roman Empire and what happened there. We'll also get back to the true story of the Hazar Empire. I have not forgotten this and I will get back to it. I promise. But I decided to break that episode at least into two parts because there is a lot of information and I think it will work much better if we divide it and have chapters of this important story. So make sure you subscribe to the channel. Make sure you hit that bell button because this will notify you if the video will be published, the next video. Additionally, if you would like to receive emails whenever I publish a new video, you can do that. I will leave a link in the description of this video for a sign up sheet. It's very easy and it really helps because once I release a video, you receive an email and you can just click the link and there you go.

[00:33:20]Therefore, have a good day. I hope you enjoyed this video and I will see you in the next one. Shallow.