Ephraim in the Scriptures
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Gen 46:20 And to Yosĕph in the land of Mitsrayim were born Menashsheh and Ephrayim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him.
(Deu 33:17) “His splendour is like a first-born bull, and his horns are like the horns of the wild ox. With them he pushes the peoples to the ends of the earth. And they are the ten thousands of Ephrayim, and they are the thousands of Menashsheh.”
Jer 31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
(Gen 48:20) And he blessed them on that day, saying, “In you Yisra’ĕl shall bless, saying, ‘Elohim make you as Ephrayim and as Menashsheh!’ ” Thus he put Ephrayim before Menashsheh.
(Gen 41:52) And the name of the second he called Ephrayim, “For Elohim has caused me to bear fruit in the land of my affliction.”
(Gen 46:20) And to Yosĕph in the land of Mitsrayim were born Menashsheh and Ephrayim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him.
(Gen 48:1) And after these events it came to be that it was said to Yosĕph, “See, your father is sick.” And he took with him his two sons, Menashsheh and Ephrayim.
(Gen 48:5) “And now, your two sons, Ephrayim and Menashsheh, who were born to you in the land of Mitsrayim before I came to you in Mitsrayim, are mine – as Re’uḇĕn and Shimʽon, they are mine.
(Gen 48:13) And Yosĕph took them both, Ephrayim with his right hand toward Yisra’ĕl’s left hand, and Menashsheh with his left hand toward Yisra’ĕl’s right hand, and brought them near him.
(Gen 48:14) And Yisra’ĕl stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephrayim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Menashsheh’s head, consciously directing his hands, for Menashsheh was the first-born.
(Gen 48:17) And when Yosĕph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephrayim, it was evil in his eyes; and he took hold of his father’s hand to remove it from the head of Ephrayim to the head of Menashsheh.
(Gen 48:20) And he blessed them on that day, saying, “In you Yisra’ĕl shall bless, saying, ‘Elohim make you as Ephrayim and as Menashsheh!’ ” Thus he put Ephrayim before Menashsheh.
(Gen 50:23) And Yosĕph saw Ephrayim’s children to the third generation. The children of Maḵir, son of Menashsheh, were also brought up on Yosĕph’s knees.
(Num 1:10) “From the sons of Yosĕph: From Ephrayim: Elishama, son of Ammihuḏ. From Menashsheh: Gamli’ĕl, son of Peḏahtsur.
(Num 1:32) From the sons of Yosĕph, the children of Ephrayim, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,
(Num 1:33) those who were registered of the tribe of Ephrayim were forty thousand five hundred.
(Num 2:18) On the west side: the banner of the camp of Ephrayim according to their divisions, and the leader of the children of Ephrayim: Elishama, son of Ammihuḏ.
(Num 2:24) All the registered ones of the camp of Ephrayim, according to their divisions: one hundred and eight thousand one hundred. And they are the third to depart.
(Num 7:48) On the seventh day Elishama, son of Ammihuḏ, leader of the children of Ephrayim:
(Num 10:22) And the banner of the camp of the children of Ephrayim departed according to their divisions. And over their army was Elishama, son of Ammihuḏ.
(Num 13:8) From the tribe of Ephrayim: Hoshĕa, son of Nun.
(Num 26:28) Sons of Yosĕph according to their clans, by Menashsheh and Ephrayim:
(Num 26:35) These are the sons of Ephrayim according to their clans: of Shuthelaḥ, the clan of the Shuthalḥites; of Beḵer, the clan of the Baḵrites; of Taḥan, the clan of the Taḥanites.
(Num 26:37) These are the clans of the sons of Ephrayim according to their registered ones: thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Yosĕph according to their clans.
(Num 34:24) “And a leader from the tribe of the children of Ephrayim: Qemu’ĕl son of Shiphtan.
(Deu 33:17) “His splendour is like a first-born bull, and his horns are like the horns of the wild ox. With them he pushes the peoples to the ends of the earth. And they are the ten thousands of Ephrayim, and they are the thousands of Menashsheh.”
(Deu 34:2) and all Naphtali and the land of Ephrayim and Menashsheh, all the land of Yehuḏah as far as the Western Sea,
(Jos 14:4) For the children of Yosĕph had become two tribes: Menashsheh and Ephrayim. And they gave no part to the Lĕwites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their open land for their livestock and their possessions.
(Jos 16:4) Thus the children of Yosĕph, Menashsheh and Ephrayim, inherited.
(Jos 16:5) And the border of the children of Ephrayim, according to their clans, was: The border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth Addar as far as Upper Bĕyth Ḥoron.
(Jos 16:8) From Tappuwaḥ the border went westward to the wadi Qanah, and it ended at the sea. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephrayim for their clans.
(Jos 16:9) And the separate cities for the children of Ephrayim were in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Menashsheh, all the cities with their villages.
(Jos 17:8) The land of Tappuwaḥ belonged to Menashsheh, but Tappuwaḥ on the border of Menashsheh belonged to the children of Ephrayim.
(Jos 17:9) And the border went down to the wadi Qanah, southward to the wadi. These cities of Ephrayim were in the midst of the cities of Menashsheh, but the border of Menashsheh was north of the wadi, and it ended at the sea.
(Jos 17:10) Southward it was Ephrayim’s, and northward it was Menashsheh’s, and the sea was its border, and they reached to Ashĕr on the north and to Yissasḵar on the east.
(Jos 17:15) And Yehoshua said to them, “If you are a great people, go up to the forest and clear a place for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and the Repha’ites, since the hill country of Ephrayim is too narrow for you.”
(Jos 17:17) And Yehoshua spoke to the house of Yosĕph, to Ephrayim and to Menashsheh, saying, “You are a great people and have great power, you are not to have one lot,
(Jos 19:50) According to the mouth of יהוה they gave him the city which he asked for, Timnath Seraḥ in the mountains of Ephrayim. And he built the city and dwelt in it.
(Jos 20:7) So they set apart Qeḏesh in Galil, in the mountains of Naphtali, and Sheḵem in the mountains of Ephrayim, and Qiryath Arba, that is Ḥeḇron, in the mountains of Yehuḏah.
(Jos 21:5) And the rest of the children of Qehath had ten cities by lot from the clans of the tribe of Ephrayim, from the tribe of Dan, and from the half-tribe of Menashsheh.
(Jos 21:20) And the clans of the children of Qehath, the Lĕwites, the rest of the children of Qehath, even they had the cities of their lot from the tribe of Ephrayim.
(Jos 21:21) And they gave them Sheḵem with its open land in the mountains of Ephrayim as a city of refuge for the slayer, and Gezer with its open land,
(Jos 24:30) And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at Timnath Seraḥ, which is in the mountains of Ephrayim, on the north side of Mount Gaʽash.
(Jos 24:33) And Elʽazar son of Aharon died, and they buried him in a hill that belonged to Pineḥas his son, which was given to him in the hill country of Ephrayim.
(Jdg 1:29) Neither did Ephrayim drive out the Kenaʽanites who dwelt in Gezer, so the Kenaʽanites dwelt in their midst, in Gezer.
(Jdg 2:9) And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at Timnath Ḥeres, in the mountains of Ephrayim, on the north side of Mount Gaʽash.
(Jdg 3:27) And it came to be, when he arrived, that he blew the ram’s horn in the mountains of Ephrayim, and the children of Yisra’ĕl went down with him from the mountains, with him leading them.
(Jdg 4:5) And she was dwelling under the palm tree of Deḇorah between Ramah and Bĕyth Ěl in the mountains of Ephrayim. And the children of Yisra’ĕl came up to her for right-ruling.
(Jdg 5:14) “Out of Ephrayim their root is against Amalĕq. After you, Binyamin, with your peoples, out of Maḵir lawgivers came down, and out of Zeḇulun those who handle the scribe’s reed.
(Jdg 7:24) Then Giḏʽon sent messengers throughout all the mountains of Ephrayim, saying, “Come down to meet Miḏyan, and capture from them the watering places as far as Bĕyth Barah and the Yardĕn.” So all the men of Ephrayim were called and captured the watering places as far as Bĕyth Barah and the Yardĕn.
(Jdg 8:1) And the men of Ephrayim said to him, “What is this you have done to us by not calling us when you went to fight with Miḏyan?” And they contended with him sharply,
(Jdg 8:2) and he said to them, “What have I done as compared with you? Are the gleanings of Ephrayim not better than the grape harvest of Aḇiʽezer?
(Jdg 10:1) And after Aḇimeleḵ there arose Tola son of Pu’ah, son of Doḏo, a man of Yissasḵar, to save Yisra’ĕl. And he dwelt in Shamur in the mountains of Ephrayim.
(Jdg 10:9) And the children of Ammon passed over the Yardĕn to fight against Yehuḏah, and against Binyamin, and against the house of Ephrayim, so that Yisra’ĕl had great distress.
(Jdg 12:1) And the men of Ephrayim gathered together, and passed over toward Tsaphon, and said to Yiphtaḥ, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? We are going to burn your house over you with fire!”
(Jdg 12:4) Yiphtaḥ then gathered together all the men of Gilʽaḏ and fought against Ephrayim. And the men of Gilʽaḏ smote Ephrayim, because they had said, “You Gilʽaḏites are fugitives of Ephrayim in the midst of Ephrayim, in the midst of Menashsheh.”
(Jdg 12:5) And Gilʽaḏ captured the fords of the Yardĕn that faced Ephrayim. And it came to be, when the fugitives from Ephrayim said, “Let me pass over,” the men of Gilʽaḏ said to him, “You are an Ephrayimite!” If he said, “No,”
(Jdg 12:15) And Aḇdon son of Hillĕl the Pirathonite died and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephrayim, in the mountains of the Amalĕqites.
(Jdg 17:1) And there was a man from the hill country of Ephrayim, whose name was Miḵahu.
(Jdg 17:8) And the man went out of the city of Bĕyth Leḥem in Yehuḏah to sojourn wherever he could find a place. And he came to the mountains of Ephrayim, to the house of Miḵah, as he journeyed.
(Jdg 18:2) And the children of Dan sent five men of their clan, brave men from Tsorʽah and Eshta’ol, to spy out the land and search it. And they said to them, “Go, search the land,” so they went to the mountains of Ephrayim, to the house of Miḵah, and spent the night there.
(Jdg 18:13) And they passed over from there to the mountains of Ephrayim, and came to the house of Miḵah.
(Jdg 19:1) And it came to be in those days, when there was no sovereign in Yisra’ĕl, that there was a certain Lĕwite sojourning on the further side of the mountains of Ephrayim. And he took for himself a concubine from Bĕyth Leḥem in Yehuḏah.
(Jdg 19:16) But see, an old man came in from his work in the field at evening, who also was from the mountains of Ephrayim. And he was sojourning in Giḇʽah, whereas the men of the place were Binyamites.
(Jdg 19:18) And he said to him, “We are passing over from Bĕyth Leḥem in Yehuḏah to the other side of the mountains of Ephrayim. I am from there, and I went to Bĕyth Leḥem in Yehuḏah, and I am going to the House of יהוה. But there is no one taking me into his house,
(1Sa 1:1) And there was a certain man of Ramathayim Tsophim, of the mountains of Ephrayim, and his name was Elqanah son of Yeroḥam, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Tsuph, an Ephrayimite.
(1Sa 9:4) And he passed through the mountains of Ephrayim and through the land of Shalishah, but they did not find them. Then they passed through the land of Shaʽalim, but they were not. Then he passed through the land of the Binyamites, but they did not find them.
(1Sa 14:22) And all the men of Yisra’ĕl who had hidden in the mountains of Ephrayim, heard that the Philistines fled, and they also pursued them in the battle.
(2Sa 2:9) and set him up to reign over Gilʽaḏ, and over the Ashĕrites, and over Yizreʽĕl, and over Ephrayim, and over Binyamin, and over all Yisra’ĕl.
(2Sa 13:23) And it came to be, after two years, that Aḇshalom had sheep-shearers in Baʽal Hatsor, which is beside Ephrayim, and Aḇshalom invited all the sons of the sovereign.
(2Sa 18:6) So the people went out into the field to meet Yisra’ĕl. And the battle was in the forest of Ephrayim,
(2Sa 20:21) “That is not the case. But a man from the mountains of Ephrayim, Sheḇa son of Biḵri by name, has raised his hand against the sovereign, against Dawiḏ. Hand him over, him alone, and I withdraw from the city.” And the woman said to Yo’aḇ, “Look, his head is going to be thrown to you over the wall.”
(1Ki 4:8) and these were their names: Ben-Ḥur, in the mountains of Ephrayim;
(1Ki 12:25) And Yaroḇʽam built Sheḵem in the mountains of Ephrayim, and dwelt there. And he went out from there and built Penu’ĕl.
(2Ki 5:22) And he said, “Peace. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Look, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the mountains of Ephrayim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of garments.’ ”
(2Ki 14:13) And Yeho’ash sovereign of Yisra’ĕl caught Amatsyahu sovereign of Yehuḏah, son of Yeho’ash, son of Aḥazyahu, at Bĕyth Shemesh. And they came to Yerushalayim and he broke through the wall of Yerushalayim from the Gate of Ephrayim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits,
(1Ch 6:66) And some of the clans of the sons of Qehath had cities of their borders from the tribe of Ephrayim.
(1Ch 6:67) And they gave them the cities of refuge: Sheḵem with its open lands, in the mountains of Ephrayim, and Gezer with its open lands,
(1Ch 7:20) And the sons of Ephrayim: Shuthelaḥ, and Bereḏ his son, and Taḥath his son, and Elaḏah his son, and Taḥath his son,
(1Ch 7:22) And Ephrayim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
(1Ch 9:3) And in Yerushalayim dwelt some of the children of Yehuḏah, and some of the children of Binyamin, and some of the children of Ephrayim and Menashsheh:
(1Ch 12:30) and the children of Ephrayim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty brave ones, men of name throughout their father’s house;
(1Ch 27:10) The seventh for the seventh month was Ḥĕlets the Pelonite, of the children of Ephrayim, and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
(1Ch 27:14) The eleventh for the eleventh month was Benayah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephrayim, and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
(1Ch 27:20) the children of Ephrayim: Hoshĕa son of Azazyahu; the half-tribe of Menashsheh: Yo’ĕl son of Peḏayahu;
(2Ch 13:4) And Aḇiyah stood on Mount Tsemarayim, which is in the mountains of Ephrayim, and said, “Hear me, Yaroḇʽam and all Yisra’ĕl:
(2Ch 15:8) And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oḏĕḏ the prophet, he took courage, and removed the abominations from all the land of Yehuḏah and Binyamin and from the cities which he had taken in the mountains of Ephrayim, and restored the altar of יהוה that was before the porch of יהוה,
(2Ch 15:9) and gathered all Yehuḏah and Binyamin, and those who sojourned with them from Ephrayim, and Menashsheh, and Shimʽon, for they came over to him in great numbers from Yisra’ĕl when they saw that יהוה his Elohim was with him.
(2Ch 17:2) and placed an army in all the walled cities of Yehuḏah, and set watch-posts in the land of Yehuḏah and in the cities of Ephrayim which Asa his father had taken.
(2Ch 19:4) So Yehoshaphat dwelt in Yerushalayim, and he went out again among the people from Be’ĕrsheḇa to the hill country of Ephrayim, and brought them back to יהוה Elohim of their fathers.
(2Ch 25:7) But a man of Elohim came to him, saying, “O sovereign, do not let the army of Yisra’ĕl go with you, for יהוה is not with Yisra’ĕl, with all the children of Ephrayim.
(2Ch 25:10) So Amatsyahu dismissed the army that had come to him from Ephrayim, to go back home. And they were greatly enraged against Yehuḏah, and they returned home in a rage.
(2Ch 25:23) And Yo’ash the sovereign of Yisra’ĕl caught Amatsyahu sovereign of Yehuḏah, son of Yo’ash, son of Yeho’aḥaz, at Bĕyth Shemesh, and brought him to Yerushalayim, and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim from the Gate of Ephrayim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits,
(2Ch 28:7) And Ziḵri, a mighty man of Ephrayim, slew Maʽasĕyahu son of the sovereign, and Azriqam the officer over the house, and Elqanah who was second to the sovereign.
(2Ch 28:12) And some of the heads of the children of Ephrayim: Azaryahu son of Yehoḥanan, Bereḵyahu son of Meshillĕmoth, and Yeḥizqiyahu son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Ḥaḏlai, stood up against those who came from the army,
(2Ch 30:1) And Ḥizqiyahu sent to all Yisra’ĕl and Yehuḏah, and he also wrote letters to Ephrayim and Menashsheh, to come to the House of יהוה at Yerushalayim, to perform the Passover to יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl.
(2Ch 30:10) And the runners passed from city to city throughout the land of Ephrayim and Menashsheh, as far as Zeḇulun. But they were laughing at them and mocking them.
(2Ch 30:18) For many of the people, many from Ephrayim and Menashsheh, Yissasḵar and Zeḇulun, had not been cleansed, yet they ate the Passover contrary to what was written. But Ḥizqiyahu prayed for them, saying, “יהוה who is good, provide atonement for everyone
(2Ch 31:1) And at the completion of all this, all Yisra’ĕl who were present went out to the cities of Yehuḏah and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Ashĕrim, and tore down the high places and the altars, from all Yehuḏah, and Binyamin, and in Ephrayim and Menashsheh, even to completion. Then all the children of Yisra’ĕl returned to their own cities, each to his possession.
(2Ch 34:6) and in the cities of Menashsheh, and Ephrayim, and Shimʽon, as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around.
(2Ch 34:9) And they went to Ḥilqiyahu the high priest, and they gave the silver that was brought into the House of Elohim, which the Lĕwites who kept the doors had gathered from the hand of Menashsheh and Ephrayim, and from all the remnant of Yisra’ĕl, and from all Yehuḏah and Binyamin, and which they had brought back to Yerushalayim,
(Neh 8:16) So the people went out and brought them and made themselves booths, each one on the roof of his house, and in their courtyards and in the courtyards of the House of Elohim, and in the open space of the Water Gate and in the open space of the Gate of Ephrayim.
(Neh 12:39) and above the Gate of Ephrayim, and above the Old Gate, and above the Fish Gate, and the Tower of Ḥanan’ĕl, and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate. And they stood still at the Gate of the Prison.
(Psa 60:7) “Gilʽaḏ is Mine and Menashsheh is Mine, And Ephrayim is the defence of My head, Yehuḏah is My lawgiver.
(Psa 78:9) The children of Ephrayim, armed bowmen, Turned back in the day of battle.
(Psa 78:67) Then He rejected the tent of Yosĕph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephrayim,
(Psa 80:2) Before Ephrayim, Binyamin, and Menashsheh, Stir up Your might, And come and save us!
(Psa 108:8) “Gilʽaḏ is Mine, Menashsheh is Mine, And Ephrayim is My chief defence, Yehuḏah is My lawgiver.
The Kingdom of Ephraim: Secession of the The Ten Tribes
(Quoted from: ‘Legacy of Sinai’ by Rabbi Zechariah Fendel. Hashkafah Publications New York: 5752/1992 page: 91,92)
King Solomon was succeeded by his son, Rechavam. During the reign of Rechavam, the Kingdom of Israel was divided into two separate kingdoms. Under Yeravam ben Nevat, whose investiture as king of the Aseres haShevatim (ten tribes) was prophesied by the venerable Prophet, Achiah haShiloni,
1Ki 11:29 And it came to be at that time, when Yaroḇʽam went out of Yerushalayim, that the prophet Aḥiyah the Shilonite met him on the way. And he was wearing a new garment, and the two were alone in the field.
1Ki 11:30 And Aḥiyah took hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces,
1Ki 11:31 and said to Yaroḇʽam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus said יהוה, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘See, I am tearing the reign out of the hand of Shelomoh and shall give ten tribes to you,
1Ki 11:32 but he shall have one tribe for the sake of My servant Dawiḏ, and for the sake of Yerushalayim, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra’ĕl.
1Ki 11:33 ‘Because they have forsaken Me, and bow themselves to Ashtoreth the mighty one of the Tsiḏonians, to Kemosh the mighty one of the Mo’aḇites, and to Milkom the mighty one of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways – to do what is right in My eyes, and My laws and My right-rulings, as did his father Dawiḏ.
1Ki 11:34 ‘But I do not take all the reign out of his hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of My servant Dawiḏ, whom I chose because he guarded My commands and My laws.
1Ki 11:35 ‘And I shall take the reign out of his son’s hand and give it to you, the ten tribes.
1Ki 11:36 ‘And to his son I give one tribe, so that My servant Dawiḏ shall always have a lamp before Me in Yerushalayim, the city which I have chosen for Myself, to put My Name there.
1Ki 11:37 ‘So I take you, and you shall reign over all that your being desires, and you shall be sovereign over Yisra’ĕl.
1Ki 11:38 ‘And it shall be, if you obey all that I command you, and shall walk in My ways, and do what is right in My eyes, to guard My laws and My commands, as My servant Dawiḏ did, then I shall be with you and build for you a steadfast house, as I built for Dawiḏ, and shall give Yisra’ĕl to you.
1Ki 11:39 ‘And because of this I humble the seed of Dawiḏ, but not forever.’ ”
(The Ten Tribes of Israel seceded from the Kingdom of Judah in the year 2964, (The Ten Tribes consisted of Reuven, Shimon, Yisachar, Zevulon, Gad, Asher, Dan, Naphtali, Ephraim, and Menasheh. The tribe of Bejamin remained loyal to the House of David. The Kohanim and the Livites, who were scattered throughout Israel, were divided among both Kingdoms. See Numbers 35:1-8, that the Levites were given 48 cities, scattered throughout Israel. See also Genesis 49:7)
And were established as an independent kingdom, known as the Kingdom of Israel, the Northern Kingdom, or the Kingdom of Ephraim.
1Ki 12:20 And it came to be when all Yisra’ĕl heard that Yaroḇʽam had come back, they sent for him and called him to the congregation, and set him up to reign over all Yisra’ĕl. There was none who followed the house of Dawiḏ, except the tribe of Yehuḏah only.
They remained an independent kingdom for the ensuing 240 years, until they were driven into exile by the King of Assyria, in the year 3205.
2Ki 18:9 And it came to be in the fourth year of Sovereign Ḥizqiyahu, which was the seventh year of Hoshĕa son of Ělah, sovereign of Yisra’ĕl, that Shalmaneser sovereign of Ashshur came up against Shomeron and besieged it,
2Ki 18:10 and they captured it at the end of three years. In the sixth year of Ḥizqiyah, that is the ninth year of Hoshĕa sovereign of Yisra’ĕl, Shomeron was captured.
2Ki 18:11 And the sovereign of Ashshur exiled Yisra’ĕl to Ashshur, and placed them in Ḥalaḥ and Ḥaḇor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
2Ki 18:12 because they did not obey the voice of יהוה their Elohim, but transgressed His covenant – all that Mosheh the servant of יהוה had commanded. And they did not obey nor do them.
(See also Rashi, Ezekiel 4:5)
Except for a small group who returned with Jeremiah in the year 3303, twenty-five years prior to the destruction of the First Temple, (See Rashi, Jeremiah 3:12; infra, p. 103, n. 128.) the precise whereabouts of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel remain unknown until this very day.
Yeravam caused Israel to sin grievously. He set up two Golden Calves in Dan and Bais El, so that the Israelites might no longer look to Jerusalem and to the Kingdom of David as their spiritual and national center.
1Ki 12:26 And Yaroḇʽam said in his heart, “Now the reign shall return to the house of Dawiḏ.
1Ki 12:27 “If these people go up to do slaughterings in the House of יהוה at Yerushalayim, then the heart of this people shall turn back to their master, Reḥaḇʽam sovereign of Yehuḏah, and they shall slay me and go back to Reḥaḇʽam sovereign of Yehuḏah.”
1Ki 12:28 So the sovereign took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Yerushalayim. See, your mighty ones, O Yisra’ĕl, which brought you up from the land of Mitsrayim!”
1Ki 12:29 And he set up one in Bĕyth Ěl, and the other he put in Dan.
1Ki 12:30 And this matter became a sin, for the people went before the one as far as Dan.
1Ki 12:31 And he made the house of high places, and made priests from all sorts of people, who were not of the sons of Lĕwi.
1Ki 12:32 And Yaroḇʽam performed a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival that was in Yehuḏah, and he offered on the altar. So he did at Bĕyth Ěl, slaughtering to the calves that he had made. And at Bĕyth Ěl he appointed the priests of the high places which he had made.
1Ki 12:33 And he made offerings on the altar which he had made at Bĕyth Ěl on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had devised in his own heart. And he performed a festival for the children of Yisra’ĕl, and offered on the altar and burned incense.
This remained as a stumbling block for the Ten Tribes during the entire 240-year duration of the Kingdom of Ephraim [2964-3205]
Until so far Rabbi Zechariah Fendel
Okay Ephraim there was no ‘holocaust’ or something like that in ‘Ashshur, Ḥalaḥ and Ḥaḇor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes’…… . In that time….. . So where are you now? We don’t know…. . You think Abba YHWH knows it?
Deu 33:13 And of Yosĕph he said, “Blessed of יהוה is his land, with the choicest from the heavens, with the dew, and the deep lying beneath,
Deu 33:14 with the choice fruits of the sun, with the choice yield of the months,
Deu 33:15 with the finest of the ancient mountains, with the choicest of the everlasting hills,
Deu 33:16 with the choicest of the earth and all that fills it, and the good pleasure of Him who dwelt in the bush. Let it come on the head of Yosĕph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.
Deu 33:17 “His splendour is like a first-born bull, and his horns are like the horns of the wild ox. With them he pushes the peoples to the ends of the earth. And they are the ten thousands of Ephrayim, and they are the thousands of Menashsheh.”
Ephraim this blessing came to you? Who are ‘With them he pushes the peoples to the ends of the earth. And they are the ten thousands of Ephrayim, and they are the thousands of Menashsheh.” ?
The Christians, the Roman Church and the Christians who came from the Roman Church ‘pushes the peoples to the ends of the earth’ but here it is written: ‘they are the ten thousands of Ephrayim, and they are the thousands of Menashsheh.’
Do you believe that Abba YHWH accept another religion as the most dominant in Eretz Israel?
There is more in Scripture about Ephraim:
(Isa 7:2) And it was reported to the house of Dawiḏ, saying, “Aram has set up camp in Ephrayim.” And his heart and the heart of his people were moved as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind.
(Isa 7:5) ‘Because Aram, Ephrayim, and the son of Remalyahu have plotted evil against you, saying,
(Isa 7:8) “For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Retsin. And within sixty-five years Ephrayim is to be broken as a people.
(Isa 7:9) “And the head of Ephrayim is Shomeron, and the head of Shomeron is the son of Remalyahu. If you do not believe, you are not steadfast.” ’ ”
(Isa 7:17) “יהוה brings on you and your people and your father’s house days that have not come since the day that Ephrayim turned away from Yehuḏah – the sovereign of Ashshur.”
(Isa 9:9) And the people shall know, all of them, Ephrayim and the inhabitant of Shomeron, who say in pride and greatness of heart:
(Isa 9:21) Menashsheh Ephrayim, and Ephrayim Menashsheh; together they are against Yehuḏah. With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out.
(Isa 11:13) And the envy of Ephrayim shall turn aside, and the adversaries of Yehuḏah be cut off. Ephrayim shall not envy Yehuḏah, and Yehuḏah not trouble Ephrayim.
(Isa 17:3) “And the stronghold shall cease from Ephrayim, and the reign from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram be as the esteem of the sons of Yisra’ĕl,” declares יהוה of hosts.
(Isa 28:1) Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephrayim, and to the fading flower of its splendid comeliness that is on the head of the fertile valley, to those who are overcome with wine!
(Isa 28:3) The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephrayim, is trampled under foot;
(Jer 4:15) For a voice is declaring from Dan, and is proclaiming trouble from Mount Ephrayim:
So we all may know why Abba said it and infect did,
(Jer 7:15) “And I shall cast you out of My presence, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the seed of Ephrayim.
It is said,
(Hos 4:17) “Ephrayim is joined to idols, let him alone.
(Hos 5:3) “I have known Ephrayim, and Yisra’ĕl has not been hidden from Me. For now, O Ephrayim, you have whored, Yisra’ĕl is defiled.
(Hos 5:5) “And the Excellency of Yisra’ĕl shall witness to his face, and Yisra’ĕl and Ephrayim stumble in their crookedness. Yehuḏah shall also stumble with them.
(Hos 5:9) “Ephrayim is laid waste in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Yisra’ĕl I shall make known what is certain.
(Hos 5:11) “Ephrayim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because it pleased him to walk after Tsaw1. Footnote: 1Name of an idol.
(Hos 5:12) “So I am to Ephrayim like a moth, and to the house of Yehuḏah like rottenness.
(Hos 5:13) “When Ephrayim saw his sickness, and Yehuḏah saw his wound, then Ephrayim went to Ashshur and sent to Sovereign Yarĕḇ. But he is unable to heal you, or to remove the wound from you.
(Hos 5:14) “For I am like a lion to Ephrayim, and like a young lion to the house of Yehuḏah. I Myself tear them and go, I take them away, and there is no one to deliver.
(Hos 6:4) “Ephrayim, what would I do with you? Yehuḏah, what would I do with you? For your trustworthiness is like a morning cloud, and like the early dew it goes away.
(Hos 6:10) “I have seen a horrible matter in the house of Yisra’ĕl: the whoring of Ephrayim is there, Yisra’ĕl is defiled.
(Hos 7:1) “Whenever I would heal Yisra’ĕl, then the crookedness of Ephrayim is uncovered, and the evil deeds of Shomeron. For they have wrought falsehood, and a thief comes in, a band of robbers raids outside.
(Hos 7:8) “Ephrayim mixes himself among the peoples, Ephrayim has become a cake unturned.
(Hos 7:11) “And Ephrayim has become a simple dove without heart, they have called on Mitsrayim, they have gone to Ashshur.
(Hos 8:9) “For they themselves have gone up to Ashshur. A wild donkey alone by itself is Ephrayim, they have hired lovers.
(Hos 8:11) “Since Ephrayim has made many altars for sin, they have been altars for sinning to him.
(Hos 9:3) They shall not dwell in the land of יהוה, but Ephrayim shall return to Mitsrayim, and eat unclean food in Ashshur.
(Hos 9:8) Elohim’s watchman over you, Ephrayim, is the prophet, but a trapper’s snare is in all his ways. Enmity is in the House of his Elohim.
(Hos 9:11) “Ephrayim is like a bird, their esteem has flown away – no birth, and none with child, and no conception!
(Hos 9:13) “I have seen Ephrayim, like Tsor, planted in a pleasant place. But Ephrayim shall bring out his children to the murderer.”
(Hos 9:16) “Ephrayim has been smitten, their root has dried up, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I shall put to death the precious ones of their womb.”
(Hos 10:6) It is also brought to Ashshur as a present for Sovereign Yarĕḇ. Ephrayim does receive shame, and Yisra’ĕl is put to shame through his counsel.
(Hos 10:11) “And Ephrayim is a trained heifer, loving to thresh grain. But I Myself shall pass over her comely neck – I put Ephrayim to the yoke, Yehuḏah ploughs, Yaʽaqoḇ harrows for him.”
(Hos 11:3) “And I taught Ephrayim to walk, taking them by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them.
(Hos 11:8) “How could I give you up, Ephrayim? How could I hand you over, Yisra’ĕl? How could I make you like Aḏmah? How could I set you like Tseḇoyim? My heart turns within Me, all My compassion is kindled.
(Hos 11:9) “I shall not let the heat of My wrath burn, I shall not turn to destroy Ephrayim. For I am Ěl, and not man, the Set-apart One in your midst, and I shall not come in enmity.
(Hos 11:12) “Ephrayim has surrounded Me with lying, and the house of Yisra’ĕl with deceit. But Yehuḏah is still wandering with Ěl, and is true to the Set-apart One.”
(Hos 12:1) Ephrayim is feeding on wind, and pursuing an east wind. All the day he increases falsehood and ruin. And they make a covenant with Ashshur, and oil is sent to Mitsrayim.
(Hos 12:8) And Ephrayim says, “Indeed, I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself. In all my labours they shall find in me no crookedness that is sin.”
(Hos 12:14) Ephrayim has provoked most bitterly. So his Master left his blood-guilt on him, and repaid him for his reproach.
(Hos 13:1) When Ephrayim spoke there was trembling, he was lifted up in Yisra’ĕl. But through Baʽal he became guilty, and he died.
(Hos 13:12) “The crookedness of Ephrayim is bound up, his sin is hidden.
(Hos 14:8) “What more has Ephrayim to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after him. I am like a green cypress tree, your fruit comes from Me.”
But Abba YHWH said also,
(Jer 31:6) “For there shall be a day when the watchmen cry on Mount Ephrayim, ‘Arise, and let us go up to Tsiyon, to יהוה our Elohim.’ ”
(Jer 31:9) “With weeping they shall come, and with their prayers I bring them. I shall make them walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they do not stumble. For I shall be a Father to Yisra’ĕl, and Ephrayim – he is My first-born.
(Jer 31:18) “I have clearly heard Ephrayim lamenting, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained calf. Turn me back, and I shall turn back, for You are יהוה my Elohim.
(Jer 31:20) “Is Ephrayim a precious son to Me, a child of delights? For though I spoke against him, I still remembered him. That is why My affections were deeply moved for him. I have great compassion for him,” declares יהוה.
(Jer 50:19) “And I shall bring back Yisra’ĕl to his pasture, and he shall feed on Karmel and Bashan. And his being shall be satisfied on Mount Ephrayim and Gilʽaḏ.
(Eze 37:16) “And you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it, ‘For Yehuḏah and for the children of Yisra’ĕl, his companions.’ Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Yosĕph, the stick of Ephrayim, and for all the house of Yisra’ĕl, his companions.’
(Eze 37:19) say to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am taking the stick of Yosĕph, which is in the hand of Ephrayim, and the tribes of Yisra’ĕl, his companions. And I shall give them unto him, with the stick of Yehuḏah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in My hand.” ’
(Eze 48:5) “And by the border of Menashsheh, from the east side to the west, Ephrayim: one.
(Eze 48:6) “And by the border of Ephrayim, from the east side to the west, Re’uḇĕn: one.
(Oba 1:19) And they shall possess the South with the mountains of Ěsaw, and low country with the Philistines. And they shall possess the fields of Ephrayim and the fields of Shomeron, and Binyamin with Gilʽaḏ,
(Zec 9:10) “And I shall cut off the chariot from Ephrayim and the horse from Yerushalayim. And the battle bow shall be cut off. And He shall speak peace to the nations, and His rule is from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
(Zec 9:13) “For I shall bend Yehuḏah for Me, I shall fill the bow with Ephrayim, and I shall stir up your sons, O Tsiyon, against your sons, O Greece, and I shall make you like the sword of a mighty man.”
(Zec 10:7) “And Ephrayim shall be as a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as if with wine. And their children shall see and rejoice, their heart exulting in יהוה.
It is written:
Jer 31:9 “With weeping they shall come, and with their prayers I bring them. I shall make them walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they do not stumble. For I shall be a Father to Yisra’ĕl, and Ephrayim – he is My first-born.
And:
Hos 1:1 The word of יהוה that came to Hoshĕa son of Be’ĕri, in the days of Uzziyah, Yotham, Aḥaz, and Ḥizqiyah, sovereigns of Yehuḏah, and in the days of Yaroḇʽam son of Yo’ash, sovereign of Yisra’ĕl.
Hos 1:2 The beginning of the word of יהוה with Hoshĕa. And יהוה said to Hoshĕa, “Go, take yourself a woman of whoring and children of whoring, for the land has utterly whored away from יהוה.”
Hos 1:3 So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Diḇlayim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
Hos 1:4 And יהוה said to him, “Call his name Yizreʽĕl, for in a little while I shall revenge the bloodshed of Yizreʽĕl on the house of Yĕhu, and put an end to the reign of the house of Yisra’ĕl.
Hos 1:5 “And it shall be in that day that I shall break the bow of Yisra’ĕl in the Valley of Yizreʽĕl.”
Hos 1:6 And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And He said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruḥamah, for no longer do I have compassion on the house of Yisra’ĕl so as to forgive them at all.
Hos 1:7 “But I shall have compassion on the house of Yehuḏah and save them by יהוה their Elohim, and not save them by bow or by sword or battle, by horses or horsemen.”
Hos 1:8 And she weaned Lo-Ruḥamah, and conceived and bore a son,
Hos 1:9 then He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not for you.
Hos 1:10 “Yet the number of the children of Yisra’ĕl shall be as the sand of the sea, which is not measured nor counted. And it shall be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they shall be called, ‘You are the sons of the living Ěl.’
Hos 1:11 “And the children of Yehuḏah and the children of Yisra’ĕl shall be gathered together, and appoint for themselves one head, and shall come up out of the earth, for great is the day of Yizreʽĕl!
And in the HaBerith HaChadashah:
Rom 9:25 As He says in Hoshĕa too, “I shall call them My people, who were not My people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.”
Rom 9:26 “And it shall be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ there they shall be called sons of the living Elohim.”
Rom 9:27 And Yeshayahu cries out on behalf of Yisra’ĕl, “Though the number of the children of Yisra’ĕl be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved.
Rom 9:28 For He is bringing a matter to an end, and is cutting it short in righteousness, because יהוה shall cut short a matter on the earth.”
Rom 9:29 And as Yeshayahu said before, “If יהוה of hosts had not left us a seed, we would have become like Seḏom, and we would have been made like Amorah.”
Rom 9:30 What shall we say then? That gentiles not following after righteousness, have obtained righteousness, even the righteousness of belief,
Rom 9:31 but Yisra’ĕl following after the Torah of righteousness, has not arrived at the Torah of righteousness.
Rom 9:32 Why? Because it was not of belief, but as by works of Torah. For they stumbled at the Stone of stumbling.
Rom 9:33 As it has been written, “See, I lay in Tsiyon a Stone of stumbling and a Rock that makes for falling, and everyone who is believing on Him shall not be put to shame.”
Eph 2:11 Therefore remember that you, once gentiles1 in the flesh, who are called ‘the uncircumcision’ by what is called ‘the circumcision’ made in the flesh by hands, Footnote: 11 Cor. 12:2.
Eph 2:12 that at that time you were without Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Yisra’ĕl and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no expectation and without Elohim in the world.
Eph 2:13 But now in Messiah יהושע you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.
Who are the people with the citizenship of Yisra’ĕl?
To who is written?
Jas 1:1 Yaʽaqoḇ, a servant of Elohim and of the Master יהושע Messiah, to the twelve tribes who are in the dispersion: Greetings… . (The Christian’s?)
About whom is Yeshuah Rabbeinu talking:
Mat 15:24 And He answering, said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Yisra’ĕl.”
It is said,
Deu 18:15 “יהוה your Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brothers. Listen to Him,
Deu 18:16 according to all you asked of יהוה your Elohim in Ḥorĕḇ in the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of יהוה my Elohim, nor let me see this great fire any more, lest I die.’
Deu 18:17 “And יהוה said to me, ‘What they have spoken is good.
Deu 18:18 ‘I shall raise up for them a Prophet like you out of the midst of their brothers. And I shall put My Words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.
Deu 18:19 ‘And it shall be, the man who does not listen to My Words which He speaks in My Name, I require it of him.
Ephraim how are you coming back?
Do you believe in The Restoration from Abba YHWH:
Jer 31:31 “See, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when I shall make a new covenant with the house of Yisra’ĕl and with the house of Yehuḏah1, Footnote: 1See Heb. 8:8-12, Heb. 10:16-17.
Jer 31:32 not like the covenant I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares יהוה.
Jer 31:33 “For this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra’ĕl after those days, declares יהוה: I shall put My Torah in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.
It is also written in the HaBerith HaChadashah:
Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, He says, “See, the days are coming,” says יהוה, “when I shall conclude with the house of Yisra’ĕl and with the house of Yehuḏah a renewed covenant,
Heb 8:9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Mitsrayim, because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them,” says יהוה.
Heb 8:10 “Because this is the covenant that I shall make with the house of Yisra’ĕl after those days, says יהוה, giving My laws in their mind, and I shall write them on their hearts, and I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.
With another religion or with listening and doing to what that Prophet is saying,
Please come,
Zep 3:10 “From beyond the rivers of Kush my worshippers, the daughter of My dispersed ones, shall bring My offering. (מנחתי)
Strong’s number H4503
מנחה
minchâh
min-khaw'
From an unused root meaning to apportion, that is, bestow; a donation; euphemistically tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering (usually bloodless and voluntary): - gift, oblation, (meat) offering, present, sacrifice.
מנחתי, the ‘yod’ on the end means ‘My’)
I believe that is,
Joh 3:14 “And as Mosheh lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so the Son of Aḏam has to be lifted up,
Joh 3:15 so that whoever is believing in Him should not perish but possess everlasting life.
Joh 3:16 “For Elohim so loved the world that He gave His only brought-forth Son, so that everyone who believes in Him should not perish but possess everlasting life.
So, Abba has brought an ‘offering’ not we! And we shall bring His offering with us, to His Land?
The time is changing….. . Ismael start to ‘run’ our world and taking over your country. I believe it is time to come together in real Teshuvah in our Land. Ismael shall also ‘hunt’ after you. It is better that the Whole House of Israel comes together…. In the Love of Yeshuath YHWH.
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