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lost tribes

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the members of the ten tribes of ancient Israel who were taken into captivity in 722 b.c. by Sargon II of Assyria and are believed never to have returned to Palestine. II Kings 17:1–23.

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lost tribes

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	Old Testament the lost tribes the ten tribes deported from the N kingdom of Israel in 721 bc and believed never to have returned to Palestine

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"The busy tribes of flesh and blood,
With all their lives and cares,
Are carried downwards by thy flood,
And lost in following years.

Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day."

-Isaac Watts

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