Book of Mormon Reference Companion by Dennis . Largey

Author:Dennis . Largey [Largey, Dennis L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Book of Mormon, Reference, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Publisher: Deseret Book Company
Published: 2003-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

The history of the northern kingdom of Israel is recounted in 1 Kings 12–2 Kings 17. Prophets including Elijah, Elisha, Hosea, Amos, and Isaiah were sent to warn the northern kingdom to repent or be destroyed. Several passages of Isaiah found in the Book of Mormon refer to the history of the northern kingdom and prophesy its destruction by the Assyrians (2 Ne. 17–18 // Isa. 7–8; 2 Ne. 19:8–20:4 // Isa. 9:8–10:4).

Pekah, king of Israel (740–732 B.C.), entered into an alliance with Rezin the king of Syria (735 B.C.) that led to the Assyrian conquest in 732 B.C. Judah was preserved during this period by making an alliance with Assyria. Eventually the northern kingdom revolted again and Assyria conquered them with a vengeance and took many of the northerners into captivity (722 B.C. ). The scriptures record little of what happened to these peoples, hence they are often referred to as the lost ten tribes. The Book of Mormon teaches that these tribes eventually were scattered throughout the earth and that in the latter days the work of gathering them back to the Lord and his covenants would begin (1 Ne. 22:4–12; 2 Ne. 21:10–16 // Isa. 11:10–16; 3 Ne. 5:24–26; 15:13–15; 16:1–5; cf. Jer. 3:18; 16:14–21; D&C 133:26–35). Those that remained in their land intermarried with the pagan peoples introduced by the Assyrians and became the Samaritans (2 Kgs. 17:24–41).

In the Book of Mormon "Israel" is most often used in reference to all of the descendants of Jacob, especially in the phrase "house of Israel," and the titles of Deity as "God of Israel" and "Holy One of Israel." Only in the Isaiah passages is the term "Israel" used referring to the descendants of Jacob in the northern kingdom as opposed to those in the southern kingdom of Judah (2 Ne. 17:1; 19:8, 12, 14; 21:12).

See also Isaiah chapter reviews (2 Ne. 17 // Isa. 7; 2 Ne. 18 // Isa. 8; 2 Ne. 19 // Isa. 9); Israel, gathering of; Israel, historical background of; Israel, house of; Israel, lost tribes of; Israel, scattering of.

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Israel, lost tribes of

Descendants of Israelites who were removed from the land of Israel, whose history was unknown to those who remained, including to the writers of the Bible and the Book of Mormon.

The expression "lost tribes" is found in only two verses of scripture (2 Ne. 29:13; 3 Ne. 17:4), both referring to members of the house of Israel outside their ancestral homeland. Nephi1 indicated that the word "lost" shows the perspective of the Israelites in the Holy Land: the tribes were "lost from the knowledge of those who are at Jerusalem" (1 Ne. 22:4).

In the eighth century B.C. , the kingdom of Israel, consisting of the northern ten tribes, was destroyed because of the wickedness of its people. Many of its inhabitants were removed from their land by Assyrian conquerors and relocated in other places (2 Kgs. 15:29; 17:3–6, 23), where they became lost from the view of the rest of Israel.

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