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.
Bethel was formerly given as an inheritance to the tribe of Benjamin but later captured by Ephrayim whose inheritance was on their borders
Jos 16:1 And the lot for the children of Yosĕph went out from the Yardĕn, by Yeriḥo, to the waters of Yeriḥo on the east, to the wilderness going up from Yeriḥo through the mountains to Bĕyth Ěl,
Jos 16:2 and went out from Bĕyth Ěl to Luz, and passed over to the border of the Arkites at Ataroth,
Jos 16:3 and went down westward to the boundary of the Yaphlĕtites, as far as the boundary of Lower Bĕyth Ḥoron to Gezer, and it ended at the sea.
Jos 16:4 Thus the children of Yosĕph, Menashsheh and Ephrayim, inherited.
Jos 18:11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Binyamin came up for their clans, and the border of their lot came out between the children of Yehuḏah and the children of Yosĕph.
Jos 18:12 And their border was on the north side from the Yardĕn, and the border went up to the side of Yeriḥo on the north, and went up through the mountains westward, and ended at the Wilderness of Bĕyth Awen.
Jos 18:13 And the border went over from there toward Luz, to the side of Luz, that is Bĕyth Ěl, southward. And the border went down to Ataroth Aḏar, by the hill that lies on the south side of Lower Bĕyth Ḥoron.
Jos 18:21 And the cities for the tribe of the children of Binyamin, for their clans, were Yeriḥo, and Bĕyth Ḥoḡlah, and Ěmeq Qetsits,
Jos 18:22 and Bĕyth Araḇah, and Tsemarayim, and Bĕyth Ěl,
Children of Yoseph attacked Bayth El and took it over. The reason for attacking Bayth El is not mentioned here but they say the book of Judges is not written chronologically and they tie this event to Judges 20 when the children of Yasharal came against Benjamin for allowing the rape and death of the concubine of a Levite in Gibeah (Judges 19). We won't go into the detail of the entire event because our focus is on Bayth El where Yaroboam set up the golden calf which involved the children of Ephraim as Bayth El was now in the children of Ephrayim's possession as Yaroboam himself was an Ephrathite (1 Kings 11:26).
Jdg 1:22 And the house of Yosĕph also went up against Bĕyth Ěl, and יהוה was with them.
Jdg 1:23 And the house of Yosĕph sent men to spy out Bĕyth Ěl – now the name of the city was formerly Luz.
Jdg 1:24 And the watchmen saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance to the city, and we shall show you kindness.”
Jdg 1:25 So he showed them the entrance to the city, and they smote the city with the edge of the sword. But the man and all his clan they let go,
Jdg 1:26 and the man went to the land of the Ḥittites and built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.
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 7:21 and Zaḇaḏ his son, and Shuthelaḥ his son, and Ezer and Elʽaḏ. But the men of Gath who were born in that land slew them because they came down to take their livestock.
1Ch 7:22 And Ephrayim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
1Ch 7:23 And when he went in to his wife, she conceived and bore a son. And he called his name Beriʽah, because evil had come upon his house.
1Ch 7:24 And his daughter was She’erah, who built Lower and Upper Bĕyth Ḥoron and Uzzen She’erah.
1Ch 7:25 And Rephaḥ was his son, as well as Resheph, and Telaḥ his son, and Taḥan his son,
1Ch 7:26 Laʽdan his son, Ammihuḏ his son, Elishama his son,
1Ch 7:27 Nun his son, Yehoshua his son.
1Ch 7:28 And their possessions and dwelling places were Bĕyth Ěl and its towns: to the east Naʽaran, and to the west Gezer and its towns, and Sheḵem and its towns, as far as Ayyah and its towns.
1Ch 7:29 And by the borders of the children of Menashsheh were Bĕyth She’an and its towns, Taʽanaḵ and its towns, Meḡiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these dwelt the children of Yosĕph, son of Yisra’ĕl.
Jdg 4:5 And she/Deborah 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.
Hence there was a need for the cleansing from the ashes/aphar (root word in Ephrayim) of the red/Adam heifer/cow to bring back children of Yasharal represented by Ephrayim whom Yahuah had divorced due to the disgusting idolatry they were occupied in. Yoseph was the favored son of Yaaqob and Rachal. His two children Ephrayim and Manassah were actually adopted by their grandfather Yaaqob as tribes of Yasharal. They both became sons of Yaaqob and the youngest Ephrayim was elevated to the firstborn status. Thus Ephrayim is often referred as the representative of the Tribe of Yoseph and the entire House of Yasharal.
Isa 50:1 Thus says יהוה, “Where is the certificate of your mother’s divorce, whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Look, you were sold for your crookednesses, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.
Jer 3:8 “And I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Yisra’ĕl had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Yehuḏah did not fear, but went and committed whoring too.
While Yahuah divorced Yasharal and banished them only the tribe of Yahudah and those who clinged to him were not yet divorced as they followed the pattern of Yahuah in going up to the temple/haykal to worship.
2Ki 17:18 So יהוה was very enraged with Yisra’ĕl, and removed them from His presence – none was left but the tribe of Yehuḏah alone.
Hos 4:16 “For Yisra’ĕl is stubborn, like a stubborn calf/parah H6510. Would יהוה now feed them like a lamb in a broad place?
Hos 4:17 “Ephrayim is joined to idols, let him alone.
Hos 4:18 “Their drink is sour, they have whored continually. Her rulers wildly loved shame.
Hos 4:19 “A wind has bound her up in its wings, and they are ashamed because of their slaughterings.
Yasharal is portrayed as a stubborn calf/cow (parah) and Yahuah asks a question prophetically ''Would Yahuah now feed them like a lamb in a broad place?''
Gen 9:27 “Let Elohim enlarge Yapheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shĕm. And let Kenaʽan become his servant.”
It was prophesied by Noach ''Let Aluahym enlarge Yapeth....'' What does this enlarging/broad place mean?
Isa 66:19 “And I shall set a sign among them, and shall send some of those who escape to the nations – Tarshish and Pul and Luḏ, who draw the bow, and Tuḇal and Yawan, the coastlands afar off who have not heard My report nor seen My esteem. And they shall declare My esteem among the gentiles.
Isa 66:20 “And they shall bring all your brothers as an offering to יהוה out of all the gentiles, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My set-apart mountain Yerushalayim,” declares יהוה, “as the children of Yisra’ĕl bring an offering in a clean vessel into the House of יהוה.
Isa 66:21 “And from them too I shall take for priests – for Lĕwites,” declares יהוה.
Gen 10:2 The sons of Yepheth: Gomer, and Maḡoḡ, and Maḏai, and Yawan, and Tuḇal, and Mesheḵ, and Tiras.
Gen 10:3 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Toḡarmah.
Gen 10:4 And the sons of Yawan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Doḏanim.
Gen 10:4 And the sons of Yawan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Doḏanim.
Gen 10:5 From these the coastland peoples of the GENTILES were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their clans, into their nations.
The people of Yasharal who were divorced would be accommodated into the nations of the descendants of Yapeth, Yawan, Tubal, Tarhsish, Pul and Lud were all descendants of Yapeth, and from there Yahuah would bring them back unto Himself. While they lay scattered in the Gentile nations they will be like a forgotten people and that's why it says ''Will Yahuah feed them like a lamb in a broad place?'' Hos 4:16
The picture is of the children of Yasharal being outside the camp and the only way to bring them back is shown by the significance of the cleansing water of the ashes/apar of the red/Adam heifer/parah. Hence Yahusha came as a suffering servant and died outside the camp.
Heb 13:11 For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the Set-apart Place by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.
Heb 13:12 And so יהושע also suffered outside the camp, to set apart the people with His own blood.