Nadene Goldfoot
It seems like Israel had very few peaceful days. They were fighting against Damascus who held control of them on and off throughout the years. Assyria had taken all the land, even Damascus. Note Haran in the north. Canaan would be all the land from Damascus down to Jerusalem.
The prophet Hosea of Israel in 726 BCE was into politics as well. He was a man who felt immense national pride of the Kingdom of Israel very much nationalist, comparing his love for his country with a man in love with a woman who saw her go astray in her ways but never stopping his love for her. He lived and prophesied in the kingdom of Israel from the reign of King Jeroboam II in 744 BCE, but was involved chiefly in the last years of the kingdom up to the year 722 BCE.
Baal Peor
The prophets tried to end the attraction of Baal worship which had taken hold of the Israelites and Judeans. They had first encountered it while on the exodus in the desert. Baal Peor was a local Canaanite deity they met up with when they entered the Promised Land that the local Canaanites worshiped with sexual orgies on Mt. Peor in Moab. The Israelites had been temporarily attracted to this cult and were punished for it during their wanderings, but found it fascinating them again. He had forcasted Israel's exile, due to the battle with with the irreligious beliefs of Baal, but comforted his people with the vision of restoration after the people's repentance from becoming involved with other gods of Baal. Practicing Baal, the leading religion of Canaan with the whole area's other inhabitants was taking over the monotheism that Moses had presented to them.
Baal Zebub was another Canaanite deity adopted by the Philistines. His shrine was at Ekron, and when Ahaziah,(853 BCE) king of Israel, fell sick, he sent messengers to consult this oracle. The name might come from Baal Zevul or the Lord of heavenly habitation.
Baalbek was a Lebanese town and cult-center of the Phoenician sun-god Baal. This was popular in the later Roman days as well.
Hosea attempted to throw off the yoke they were under by 726 BCE and this led to Shalmaneser V's siege of Samaria, their capital, and its capture in 721 by his successor, Sargon.
It was way back in 835 BCE that Shalmaneser III had attacked Damascus whose leader was Ben-Hadad II. King Ahab of Israel supported Damascus in an indecisive battle of Karkar. Shalmaneser had made a 2nd attack in 848 which failed. However, the House of Ahab (876-853 BCE) in 842 was liquidated by their enemy and King Jehu(843-816 BCE) , the next Israeli king, had to pay tribute. All this time, Damascus was able to hold out against the attack and it was Damascus that controlled Israel at this time.
Damascus was captured in 806 BCE and this freed up Israel from their control. Then again from 803 to 802 BCE Adad-Nirari II compelled the submission of Ben-Hadad III of Damascus from 810 to 783 BCE.
It was time for some successes for Israel. Jehoash (800-785 BCE) of Israel and his son Jeroboam II (785-745 BCE) fought against Ben-Hadad II with success. Possibly they were successful now was because of Shalmaneser IV (782-772 BCE) was so passive about the fight as he was under the pressure of the kings of Ararat and of Ashur-DanIII (772-759 BCE).
Then Jeroboam II of Israel died, and Judah's King Uzziah 780-740 BCE) became head of the Western anti-Assyrian alliance. The Assyrian decline which made this possible was ended by Tiglath-Pileser III (745-727 BCE) who overthrew the Syrian confederacy.
Unfortunately, Assyria came out of their decline because of Tiglath-Pileser III (745-727 BCE) who was able to overthrow the Syrian confederacy. By 735, Ahaz, who was attacked by Pekah of Israel in alliance with Damascus, Philistia and Edom, had appealed for help from Tiglath-Pileser.
As a result of this, Israel lost its territory in Transjordan and Galilee, while Philistia, Tyre, Moab and Edom became Assyrian provinces. The blue land above Judah is Israel and Tyre would be above that and on the coast.
All this fighting led to Shalmaneser's siege of Samaria and its capture in 721 BCE by Sargon who annexed the country and deported 27,290 Israelites to Assyria and Media and replaced them with Syrian and Babylonian prisoners.
This resulted in returning Israelites to Assyria whence they came from in the first place. The Israelites were the Ivrim (Hebrews). They had been living in Ur "Kasdim." They had left to go to the land of Canaan and settled in Haran. Former Syrians now were living in Israel as their replacements. People were taken away and later returned or almost returned
Aram-Dammesek was the most important Aramean kingdom in Syria till the 8th century BCE, called after its capital, Damascus. It was a constant danger to its neighbor, Israel which it often exploited in its many disputes with Judah after 933 BCE when Solomon died and the kingdom split. It joined the kings of Israel, Judah and Syria in opposing the Assyrians in 853, 848, and 845 BCE. In 805, the Assyrians took Damascus and forced the king to pay a heavy tribute. The kings of Israel then took the opportunity to win back land conquered by Aram- Dammesek and even to annex it for a time. In 738 BCE, Dammesek allied itself with Israel against Assyria. During the following campaign conducted by Tiglath-Pileser from 733 to 732 BCE, the Aram-Dammesek was plundered, its population exiled, and its existence as an independent state ended.
The city of Ashdod revolted and this was supported by King Hezekiah of Judah but the whole affair was suppressed in 715 BCE. On the accession of Sennacherib in 705 BCE, an uprising broke out throughout the Assyrian Empire. Hezekiah reasserted his independence. Sennacherib marched south and subdued the Phoenician cities one by one and defeated the Egyptian forces at Eltekeh in 701 BCE. He took Ascalon and Joppoa, sacked Lachish and invaded Jerusalem in 700 BCE.
The Kingdom of Judah was ravaged, but Hezekiah held out and obtained moderate terms by paying tribute and ceding some territory. Later, Sennacherib was forced by a plague in his army to go back home. King Manasseh (692-638 BCE) of Judah was exiled to Assyria in 652 BCE as a result of complicity in a plot against Ashurbanipal (669-626 BCE). After this time, Assyria went into a decline quickly and was succeeded by Babylon.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 27,290 ISRAELITES TAKEN BY THE ASSYRIANS?
MANY EVENTUALLY WOUND UP IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN
How did the Pashtuns come from Israel? We know that Pashtuns of Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of India have been practicing remnants of the Israelite culture, even knowing of their connections of being the sons of Israel. So yes, many of us feel that the lost 10 tribes of Israel have been found to be the Pashtuns, at least some of them are the descendants of some of those tribes.
Afghanistan's civilization also began as early as 3,000 BCE which would take us right to 721 BCE when Assyria carried away our Israelites. At the time, Zoroastrianism was the religion in the area. Later, Buddhism and Hinduism emerged there due to the closeness of those countries involved and left their mark in the region. Gandhara was an ancient kingdom from the Vedic period (1500-500 BCE) with its capital city between the Hindukush and Sulaiman Mountains of Solomon.
Zorostrianism practiced before the 6th century BCE, was closer to Moses's teachings than Baal certainly was. It is more of an Iranic religion. The descendants of Zoroastrian Iranian (Persian) immigrants are known as Parsis, or Parsees.
Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest religions that remains active. It is a monotheistic faith, centered in a dualistic cosmology of good and evil and an eschatology predicting the ultimate destruction of evil.
Zoroaster, the Greek form of his name)—is traditionally regarded as the founder of the religion. Zoroastrianism contains both monotheistic and dualistic features. It likely influenced the other major Western religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It wasn't as monotheistic as they are today, but it does represent an original attempt at unifying under the worship of one supreme god a polytheistic religion comparable to those of the ancient Greeks, Latins, Indians, and other early peoples. Although the "burning of fire" was a key element in Zoroastrian worship, the burning of "eternal" fire, as well as the presence of "light" in worship, was also a key element in many other religions. It served as the state religion of the pre-Islamic Iranian empires for more than a millennium, from around 600 BCE to 650 CE.
Of course, in 642, Afghanistan became Islamic. Afghanistan at that period had a number of different independent rulers, depending on the area. Ancestors of Abū Ḥanīfa, including his father, were from the Kabul region. The early Arab forces did not fully explore Afghanistan due to attacks by the mountain tribes. Much of the eastern parts of the country remained independent, as part of the Hindu Shahi kingdoms of Kabul and Gandhara, which lasted that way until the forces of the Muslim Saffarid dynasty followed by the Ghaznavids conquered them.
The exile of the Ten Tribes remained in populated concentration in the region in which they were places, in the general direction of the exile cited in the Bible, NORTHEAST OF ISRAEL. ISRAEL WILL BE REDEEMED ONLY WHEN THEY BECOME REUNITED AS ONE. It seems that the kings of Assyria exiled the 10 Tribes to the kingdom of Assyria, itself and across the Euphrates river. That's where Abraham and his family originally came from!
Resource: The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy_of_Peor
http://www.ancientdestructions.com/baalbek-temple-human-sacrifice-worship-baal/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Zoroastrianism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Afghanistan
THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL-THE LOST AND THE DISPERSED by Rabbi Eliyahu Avichail
https://www.bible-history.com/assyrian-social-structure/assyrian-social-structure_social_organizations.html
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| Assyrian soldier marching off the Israelites The people who inhabited Assyria belonged to the great Semitic race. In stature the Assyrians were of average modern European height, and were powerfully built. Their complexion was dark, forehead high,nose prominent, hair, eyebrows, and beard were black thick and bushy and the lips were full.
They rarely intermarried with neighboring peoples.
The prisoners of war were forced to become "people of restricted freedom" and to work in the temple or palace once they reached their destination. The palace was considered the household of the king while the temple was a household of their god, and their god had to be clothed and taking care of. It was usually the slaves who actually tended to the needs of the god. The palace and the temple were highly organized and the whole Mesopotamia society contributed to its maintenance, whether it was through taxation, property, trade or war.
They were very superstitious and had rules about good and bad days with omens. ""On the first day he shall not expose himself to the gale on the field. He must not eat garlic, otherwise a scorpion will sting him. He must not eat white garlic, otherwise he will suffer a heart attack. On the second day he must not climb upon a roof, for Ardat Lili (an evil demon)would find him. He must not eat roast meat, otherwise he will be covered with sores. On the third day he shall have no sexual intercourse with a woman, for the woman will rob him of his virility. He shall not eat fish; it is disrespectful and a crocodile would attack him. He shall not eat dates, for they would give him a stomach illness. He shall not irrigate a sesame field, for the sesame caterpillar would overcome him…"
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Baal Peor
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| Priests instructed the people that the bright sky god Baal was responsible for droughts, plagues, earthquakes and other calamities. People were often worked up into great frenzies at the prospects of displeasing Baal. In times of great turbulence human sacrifices, particularly children, were made to this father of the gods! King Ahab of Israel (876-853 BCE) was one of the most notoriously wicked king’s of the bible. Under the influence of his wife, Jezebel, Ahab built altars to Baal. Common enough in the Canaan of biblical times, these rituals sacrificed humans, typically children, to the patron God of the city. The bodies of these victims were placed under the foundations or in the walls of the structure. |
Baalbek was a Lebanese town and cult-center of the Phoenician sun-god Baal. This was popular in the later Roman days as well.
It was way back in 835 BCE that Shalmaneser III had attacked Damascus whose leader was Ben-Hadad II. King Ahab of Israel supported Damascus in an indecisive battle of Karkar. Shalmaneser had made a 2nd attack in 848 which failed. However, the House of Ahab (876-853 BCE) in 842 was liquidated by their enemy and King Jehu(843-816 BCE) , the next Israeli king, had to pay tribute. All this time, Damascus was able to hold out against the attack and it was Damascus that controlled Israel at this time.
It was time for some successes for Israel. Jehoash (800-785 BCE) of Israel and his son Jeroboam II (785-745 BCE) fought against Ben-Hadad II with success. Possibly they were successful now was because of Shalmaneser IV (782-772 BCE) was so passive about the fight as he was under the pressure of the kings of Ararat and of Ashur-DanIII (772-759 BCE).
Then Jeroboam II of Israel died, and Judah's King Uzziah 780-740 BCE) became head of the Western anti-Assyrian alliance. The Assyrian decline which made this possible was ended by Tiglath-Pileser III (745-727 BCE) who overthrew the Syrian confederacy.
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| British Museum display of Assyrian Days |
All this fighting led to Shalmaneser's siege of Samaria and its capture in 721 BCE by Sargon who annexed the country and deported 27,290 Israelites to Assyria and Media and replaced them with Syrian and Babylonian prisoners.
This resulted in returning Israelites to Assyria whence they came from in the first place. The Israelites were the Ivrim (Hebrews). They had been living in Ur "Kasdim." They had left to go to the land of Canaan and settled in Haran. Former Syrians now were living in Israel as their replacements. People were taken away and later returned or almost returned
Aram-Dammesek was the most important Aramean kingdom in Syria till the 8th century BCE, called after its capital, Damascus. It was a constant danger to its neighbor, Israel which it often exploited in its many disputes with Judah after 933 BCE when Solomon died and the kingdom split. It joined the kings of Israel, Judah and Syria in opposing the Assyrians in 853, 848, and 845 BCE. In 805, the Assyrians took Damascus and forced the king to pay a heavy tribute. The kings of Israel then took the opportunity to win back land conquered by Aram- Dammesek and even to annex it for a time. In 738 BCE, Dammesek allied itself with Israel against Assyria. During the following campaign conducted by Tiglath-Pileser from 733 to 732 BCE, the Aram-Dammesek was plundered, its population exiled, and its existence as an independent state ended.
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| Sennacherib II-Sargon-the same person Sennacherib was the king of Assyria from 705 BCE to 681 BCE. He is principally remembered for his military campaigns against Babylon and Judah, and for his building programs – most notably at the Akkadian capital of Nineveh. He was assassinated in obscure circumstances in 681 BCE, apparently by his eldest son. |
The Kingdom of Judah was ravaged, but Hezekiah held out and obtained moderate terms by paying tribute and ceding some territory. Later, Sennacherib was forced by a plague in his army to go back home. King Manasseh (692-638 BCE) of Judah was exiled to Assyria in 652 BCE as a result of complicity in a plot against Ashurbanipal (669-626 BCE). After this time, Assyria went into a decline quickly and was succeeded by Babylon.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 27,290 ISRAELITES TAKEN BY THE ASSYRIANS?
MANY EVENTUALLY WOUND UP IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN
How did the Pashtuns come from Israel? We know that Pashtuns of Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of India have been practicing remnants of the Israelite culture, even knowing of their connections of being the sons of Israel. So yes, many of us feel that the lost 10 tribes of Israel have been found to be the Pashtuns, at least some of them are the descendants of some of those tribes.
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| In 2011, Afghanistan had 28,395,716 population Pakistan had 172,800,000 Both are Islamic States |
Pakistan: 30,699,037 (2008)
Afghanistan: 13,750,117 (2008)
Iran: 110,000 (1993)
India: 13,000 (2009)
Germany: 37,800 (2012)
Russia: 9,800 (2002)
Afghanistan's civilization also began as early as 3,000 BCE which would take us right to 721 BCE when Assyria carried away our Israelites. At the time, Zoroastrianism was the religion in the area. Later, Buddhism and Hinduism emerged there due to the closeness of those countries involved and left their mark in the region. Gandhara was an ancient kingdom from the Vedic period (1500-500 BCE) with its capital city between the Hindukush and Sulaiman Mountains of Solomon.
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| Zorastrian Temple |
Zorostrianism practiced before the 6th century BCE, was closer to Moses's teachings than Baal certainly was. It is more of an Iranic religion. The descendants of Zoroastrian Iranian (Persian) immigrants are known as Parsis, or Parsees.
Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest religions that remains active. It is a monotheistic faith, centered in a dualistic cosmology of good and evil and an eschatology predicting the ultimate destruction of evil.
Zoroaster, the Greek form of his name)—is traditionally regarded as the founder of the religion. Zoroastrianism contains both monotheistic and dualistic features. It likely influenced the other major Western religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It wasn't as monotheistic as they are today, but it does represent an original attempt at unifying under the worship of one supreme god a polytheistic religion comparable to those of the ancient Greeks, Latins, Indians, and other early peoples. Although the "burning of fire" was a key element in Zoroastrian worship, the burning of "eternal" fire, as well as the presence of "light" in worship, was also a key element in many other religions. It served as the state religion of the pre-Islamic Iranian empires for more than a millennium, from around 600 BCE to 650 CE.
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| Pashtun warrior Most of the Pathans have sidelocks and beards; all the Afridis have beards. Some of the Pathan children have strings on their clothes like a small tallit. The Pathan tribes that a Mr. Betzalel feels are descended from the 10 Tribes are Afridis-Ephraim, Lewani-Levites, Rabbani-Reuven, Shinwari-Shimon, Daftani-Naftali and Jajis-Gad; all living in the PeshHibur area. |
Pashtuns have for centuries been the dominant ethnic group in Afghanistan. Tensions between them and other groups, such as the Tajiks and the Hazaras, burst into the open during the country's civil war in the 1990s. Kabul is the capital of Afghanistan.
The exile of the Ten Tribes remained in populated concentration in the region in which they were places, in the general direction of the exile cited in the Bible, NORTHEAST OF ISRAEL. ISRAEL WILL BE REDEEMED ONLY WHEN THEY BECOME REUNITED AS ONE. It seems that the kings of Assyria exiled the 10 Tribes to the kingdom of Assyria, itself and across the Euphrates river. That's where Abraham and his family originally came from!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy_of_Peor
http://www.ancientdestructions.com/baalbek-temple-human-sacrifice-worship-baal/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Zoroastrianism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Afghanistan
THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL-THE LOST AND THE DISPERSED by Rabbi Eliyahu Avichail
https://www.bible-history.com/assyrian-social-structure/assyrian-social-structure_social_organizations.html
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