In the days of Yeroboam's golden
calves, he set up priests from all classes to serve the golden calves and
minister to the children of Yasharal. But those faithful i.e. the priests of
Levites and few other from other tribes crossed over to Yahudah to be under
Rehoboam who served Yahuah.
2Ch 11:13 And from all their borders the priests and the Lĕwites who
were in all Yisra’ĕl took their stand with him/Rehaboam.
2Ch 11:14 For the Lĕwites left their open lands and their possessions and
came to Yehuḏah and Yerushalayim, for Yaroḇʽam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests
unto יהוה,
2Ch 11:15 as he appointed for himself priests for the high places, and for
goats, and the calf idols which he had made.
2Ch 11:16 And after the Lĕwites left, those from all the tribes of
Yisra’ĕl, such as set their heart to seek יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, came to
Yerushalayim to offer to יהוה Elohim of their fathers.
In the days of Asa king of
Yahudah many of the scattered of Yasharal crossed over to Yahudah. These groups
were absorbed into Yahudah. Those who remained on the other side were carried
captive by the king of Ashshur later because they were unfaithful to Yahuah and
worshiped the golden calves and other gods.
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/Asa.
Because of
Yeroboam who led Yasharal to sin against him Yahuah caused all of Yasharal to
be carried captive into Assyria/Ashshur.
2Ki 17:24 And the
king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and from Cuthah and from Avva and from
Hamath and Sephar-vaim, and settled them in the cities of
Samaria in place of the sons of Yisrael. And they possessed Samaria and
lived in its cities.
2Ki17:25 And it
came to pass, at the beginning of their living there, they did not fear Yahuah;
and Yahuah sent lions among them, and they were destroying among them
2Ki17:26 And they
spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, the nation's/guym which you have removed,
and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the custom of the El of the
land; so, he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them because they
do not know the custom of the El of the land.
Rabbanical
Judaism reject Samaritans as non Yahudites because they believe that the ones
living in Samaria were not Samaritans but Babylonians, they believe that none
of the Samaritans who originally lived there are living there but the
Babylonians whom the king of Assyria brought to live there who are not Jews.
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.
Remember we read in the days of Asa thousands from tribes from Yasharal crossed over to Yahudah and merged has been recognized as Yahudah. Yahuah had given Binyamin to Yahudah as one tribe and now Yahuah made the house of Yahudah stronger and stronger and the house of Yasharal weaker by dispersing them into captivity.
Ezra 4:2, 9-10
implies that later Assyrian king also returned more Yasharalites back to
Samaria. These Samaritans who now resettled in the land of Yasharal had
inter-married with the Babylonians of the five nations that the king of Assyria
brought into Samaria. They along with the other Yashariltes who had resettled
offered to help Zerubbabel and the heads of the father’s houses build the house
of Yahuah but they were adversaries of Yahudah and Binyamin and Zerubbabel
refused their offer.
Ezr 4:1 And when the adversaries of Yehuḏah and Binyamin heard that the sons of the exile were building the Hĕḵal of יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl,
Ezr 4:2 they came to
Zerubbaḇel and the heads of the fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we seek your
Elohim as you do. And we have slaughtered to Him since the days of
Ěsarḥaddon sovereign of Ashshur, who brought us here.”
Esarhaddon was the son of
Sennacherib. Sennacherib had sent the Rabshekah (1 Kings 18) to
threaten Hezekiah king of Yahudah who was faithful to Yahuah and Yahuah sent
the prophet YashaYahu asking the king not to be afraid of his threats for he
will not shoot a single arrow. 2 Kings 18:34 is a threat of the Rabshekah to
king Hezekiah showing that Samaria was in his possession as it had been taken
by Shalmaneser - 2 Kings 18:9 and it was in his possession.
2Ki 18:34 ‘Where are the mighty ones of Ḥamath and Arpaḏ? Where are the mighty ones of Sepharwayim and Hĕna and Iwwah? Did they deliver
Shomeron from my hand?
Who was
Sennacherib?
Sennacherib was
the son of the king of Assyria Sargon II who was also the son of
Tiglath-Pileser (Pul) and he overthrew his elder brother Shalmaneser and took
over the kingdom from him. Hence those carried into captivity under his father
and brothers reign were now his.
You may read the
entire account in 2 Kings 18 and 19.
2Ki 19:36 So
Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at
Nineveh.
2Ki 19:37 And it
came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his mighty one,
that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they
escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his
stead.
Yahuah protected
Hezekiah king of Yahudah and Sennacherib was killed by his two sons and his son
Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place. We see the Shomeri and other
Yasharalites who come to Zerubbabel asking them to allow them to build the
house of Yahuah tell him that they have been worshipping Yahuah only from the
days of Esarhaddon (as previous to their captivity they worshiped Yeroboam's
golden calves and other gods).
Ezr 4:2 they came to
Zerubbaḇel and the heads of the fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we seek your
Elohim as you do. And we have slaughtered to Him since the days of
Ěsarḥaddon sovereign of Ashshur, who brought us here.”
This shows that
Esarhaddon resettled them back in their lands from where they were taken
captive by Shalmaneser king of Assyria. Zerubbabel refused their help for
these men were wicked.
Ezr 4:3 But Zerubbaḇel and Yĕshua and the rest of
the heads of the fathers’ houses of Yisra’ĕl said to them, “It
is not for you and for us to build a house for our Elohim, but we alone build
to יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, as Sovereign Koresh the sovereign of Persia has
commanded us.”
Ezr 4:4 And it came
to be that the people of the land were weakening the hands of the people of
Yehuḏah and troubling them in their
building,
After the refusal
these people sent a letter to the king which we will see a little later.
First a little
bit of history of what had happened. The Northern Kingdom of
Israel was conquered by
the Neo-Assyrian monarchs, Tiglath-Pileser III (Pul)
and Shalmaneser V.
Here is the
proof:
2Ki 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser
(Pul) king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and
Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of
Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
1Ch 5:26 So the
Elohim of Yisra’ĕl stirred up the spirit of Pul sovereign of Ashshur,
even the spirit of Tiglath-Pileser sovereign of Ashshur. And he took the
Re’uḇĕnites, and the Gaḏites, and the half-tribe of Menashsheh into
exile, and brought them to Ḥalaḥ, and Ḥaḇor, and Hara, and the river of Gozan, unto this day.
2 Kings 15:29
records the lands taken in captivity and 1 Chr 5:26 records the tribes of those
lands taken in captivity by Tiglathpileser.
The other half
tribe of Menashsheh (son of Yoseph) was Shomeron/Samaritans who were taken
captive by Shalmaneser the son of Tiglath-Pileser (Pul) in the very same places
where Reubenites, Gadites, the other half-tribe of Menashsheh were taken into
exile (as mentioned in 1 Chr 5:26).
2Ki 17:6 In the ninth
year of Hoshĕa (king of Yasharal), the sovereign of Ashshur captured Shomeron and exiled Yisra’ĕl to
Ashshur, and settled them in Ḥalaḥ and Ḥaḇor, the River of Gozan, and in
the cities of the Medes.
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.
2 Kings 17:6
tells us briefly that in the 9th year of Hoshea the king of
Ashshur captured Shomeron and exiled Yasharal to Ashshur and where he settled
them whereas 2 Kings 18:9-10 gives a detailed explanation and the name of the
king of Assyria who besieged Samaria.
How do we know
Samaritans were from the tribe of Menashsheh?
Oba 1:17 “But on
Mount Tsiyon there shall be an escape, and they shall be set-apart. And
the house of Yaʽaqoḇ shall
possess their possessions
Oba 1:18 “And the
house of Yaʽaqoḇ shall be a fire, and the house of Yosĕph a flame, but the house of Ěsaw for
stubble. And they shall burn among them and they shall consume them, so that no
survivor is left of the house of Ěsaw.” For יהוה has spoken.
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,
Ephrayim and
Menashsheh were sons of Yoseph. Yahuah in Obadiah verse 17-18 begins with a
wider perspective calling house of Yoseph as ‘house of Yaaqob’, the reader
shouldn’t misunderstand that the resettlement mentioned is of the twelve tribes
in these lands allotted to the sons of Yoseph because the 12 sons of Yaaqob
comprise the 12 tribes and they were given different lands. The verses 17-18 of
Obadiah narrows down to house of Yoseph being a flame to the house of Esaw and
their possession of the South with the mountains of Esaw and the low country
with the Philistines and fields of Ephrayim and the fields of Shomeron and
Binyamin with Gilead. The reader should not misunderstand Binyamin for Binyamin
was also a son of Yaaqob, but if you remember he was the blood brother of
Yoseph and both Yoseph and Binyamin of the same mother Rachel were stepbrothers of the other 10 brothers. Hence, the focus here is on the house of
Yoseph. Obadiah 1:18-19 is a promise of the resettlement of the tribes
spiritually as Obadiah speaks of ‘Day of Yahuah’ near upon the guym i.e. the
tribes. The spiritual promise of Messiah through Yoseph is in the historic
resettlement which happened.
Gen 49:22 “Yosĕph is
an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree, an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree by a
fountain, his branches run over a wall.
Gen 49:23 “And the
archers have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and hated him.
Gen 49:24 “But his
bow remained in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the
hands of the Mighty One of Yaʽaqoḇ – from there is
the Shepherd, the Stone of Yisra’ĕl –
Jos 18:11 ¶ And
the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up
according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth
between the children of Yahudah and the children of Yoseph.
And we saw that in the days of Rehoboam Binyamin was given as a tribe to David's house to keep his rule over both the houses.
Also notice
‘Gilead’ was given as an inheritance to Menashsheh
Jos 17:1 And the lot for the tribe of Menashsheh, for he was the
first-born of Yosĕph, was: for Maḵir the first-born of Menashsheh,
father of Gileaḏ, because he was a man of battle, therefore he had Gileaḏ and Bashan.
De 3:15 And I
gave Gilead unto Machir. (Makir was the first-born of Menashsheh). We read in 2
Kings 15:29 and 1 Chr 5:26 Gilead which was given to the half tribe of
Menashsheh was already taken away captive by Tiḡlath-Pileser sovereign of Ashshur.
Joh 4:3 He/Yahusha left Judaea and departed again into Galilee.
4 ¶ And he
must needs go through Samaria.
5 Then
cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the
parcel of ground that Yaaqob/Jacob gave to his son Yoseph.
Ge 33:18 And
Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of
Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.
Ge 33:19 And
he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of
the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.
Ge 33:20 And he erected there an altar and called it Ěl Elohĕ Yisra’ĕl.
Yahusha came to
the Samaritans/Shomeri’s near the parcel of the field that Yaaqob gave his son
Yoseph, near Shechem in a city called Sychar which was also a part of
Samaritan’s. Yoseph’s bones when carried from Egypt were buried in Shechem.
Jos 24:32 And the bones of Yosĕph, which the children of Yisra’ĕl had
brought up out of Mitsrayim, they buried at Sheḵem, in the plot of ground which Yaʽaqoḇ had bought from the sons
of Ḥamor the father of Sheḵem for one hundred pieces of silver, and which had become an inheritance of
the children of Yosĕph.
Num 26:29 Sons of
Menashsheh: of Maḵir, the clan of the Maḵirites. And Maḵir
brought forth Gilʽaḏ; of Gilʽaḏ, the clan of the Gilʽaḏites.
Num 26:30 These are
sons of Gilʽaḏ: of Iyezer, the clan of the Iyezerites; of Ḥĕleq, the clan of the Ḥĕleqites;
Num 26:31 of Asri’ĕl,
the clan of the Asri’ĕlites; of Sheḵem, the clan of the Sheḵemites;
Num 26:32 of Shemiḏa, the clan of the Shemiḏaites; of Ḥĕpher, the clan of the Ḥĕpherites.
Num 26:33 And Tselophḥaḏ son of Ḥĕpher had no sons, but daughters.
And the names of the daughters of Tselophḥaḏ: Maḥlah, and Noʽah, Ḥoḡlah, Milkah, and Tirtsah.
Num 26:34 These are
the clans of Menashsheh, and their registered ones: fifty-two thousand seven
hundred.
Jos 17:5 And ten
portions fell to Menashsheh, besides the land of Gilʽaḏ and Bashan, which were
beyond the Yardĕn,
Jos 17:6 because the
daughters of Menashsheh received an inheritance among his sons. And the rest of
Menashsheh’s sons had the land of Gilʽaḏ.
Jos 17:7 And the
border of Menashsheh was from Ashĕr to Miḵmethath, which is on the face of Sheḵem. And the border went up to
the right to the inhabitants of Ěn Tappuwaḥ.
Jos 17:8 The land of
Tappuwaḥ belonged to Menashsheh, but Tappuwaḥ on the border of Menashsheh belonged to the children of
Ephrayim.
The sons of
Yoseph Ephrayim and Manashsheh shared their borders with each other on the
mountains of Ephrayim where Yeroboam dwelt by building the city of Shekem (1
Kings 12:25).
1Ki 12:25 And
Yaroḇ‛am built
Sheḵem in the mountains of Ephrayim,
and dwelt there. And he went out from there and built Penu’ěl.
Coming back to
Ezra 4, The letter written by the Samaritans/Shomeronites along with the others
dwelling in Yasharal and Yahudah when Yahudah were in captivity to king
Aḥashwĕrosh, they identify themselves as rest of the people whom the great and
noble Osnapper (notice the king of Assyria who took them into captivity were
Tiglath-Pileser & Shalmaneser) as the one who brought them into the cities
of Shomeron and the rest beyond the River.
Ezr 4:9 Reḥum the governor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of
their companions – the judges, and the emissaries, the consuls, the officials, the people of
Ereḵ and of Baḇel and of Shushan, the
Dehawites, the Ěylamites,
Ezr 4:10 and the
rest of the people whom
the great and noble
Osnapper brought over and settled in the cities of Shomeron and the rest beyond the River. And now,
Ezr 4:11 this is a
copy of the letter that they sent him, to Sovereign Artaḥshashta from your
servants the men beyond the River. And now,
We read in
Ezra 4:2 the Samaritans and the Yasharalites telling Zerubbabel that they have
started worshiping Yahuah and slaughtering only to him since the days of
Esarhaddon king of Ashshur who brought us here.
Ezr 4:2 they came to
Zerubbaḇel and the heads of the fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we seek your
Elohim as you do. And we have slaughtered to Him since the days of Ěsarḥaddon
sovereign of Ashshur, who brought us here.”
We learnt Esarhaddon was the son
of Sennacherib who succeeded him after his brothers killed their
father. If Esarhaddon brought them back who is ‘Osnapper’ whom they say in Ezra
4:10 who brought them back? Is there a contradiction?
Ezr 4:10 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble
Osnapper brought over and settled in the cities of Shomeron and the rest beyond the River....
There is no
contradiction here. When we turn to the historical facts Esarhaddon son was ‘ASHURBANIPAL’ and Esarhaddon crowned
him prince of Assyria in 668 B.C. (62 years before Yahudah's Babylobian captivity) and his brother as crown prince of Babylonia
whose name was ‘Shamash-shum-ukin’. At the father's (Esarhaddon’s)
death the latter, however, was only permitted to become viceroy of Babylonia.
Ashurbanipal is the great and ‘noble Osnappar’ who in the days of his father
Esarhaddon was ‘crowned prince of Assyria’ and under his father Esarhaddon
orders resettled them back from where they were taken as captive.
While being
resettled back the Shomeri/Samaritans intermarried foreign wives,
Rabbanical Judaism accuses them of only reading the 5 books of Torah and that
Samaritans don't believe the prophets and the writings of Tanak. Rabbanical
Talmud calls them 'Kutim' because the king of Assyria had brought people from
Babylon and resettled them in place of the Samaritans.
2Ki 17:24 And the sovereign of Ashshur brought people from Baḇel, and from Kuthah, and from Awwa,
and from Ḥamath, and Sepharwayim, and placed them in the cities of Shomeron
instead of the children of Yisra’ĕl. And they took possession of Shomeron and
dwelt in its cities.
This
contemptuous relationship between the Samaritan's and Yahudites continued right
into Renewed Testament times. Samaritans even refused to
receive Yahusha when his face was set for Yerushalam because they rejected Yerushalam as the place of worship and worship Yahuah on Mt. Gerizim.
Luk 9:51 And it came to be, when the days of His taking up were being completed, even He
set His face to go to Yerushalayim,
Luk 9:52 and He sent messengers ahead of Him. And they went and entered into a village
of the Shomeronites, to prepare for Him.
Luk 9:53 And they did not receive Him, because His face was set for the journey to
Yerushalayim.
Joh 4:9 The woman of Shomeron therefore said to Him, “How is it
that You, being a Yehuḏite, ask a drink from me, a woman of Shomeron?” For Yehuḏim do not associate with
Shomeronites.
The hatred
Yahudite's have towards Samaritans can be seen by the Yahudim calling Yahusha a
Shomeronite/Samaritan and having a demon.
Joh 8:48 The Yehuḏim answered and
said to Him, “Do we not say well that You are a Shomeronite and have a
demon?”
Yahusha changed
the perspective completely in quoting a good Samaritan/Shomeronite as showing
the work of Torah on his heart whereas the others who passed by the wounded man
including a Levite priest didn't care for him. In this story the Samaritan
leper was the only one of ten healed by Yahusha who came to him to give praise
for his healing.
Luk 17:11 And it came to be, as He went to Yerushalayim, that He passed through the midst
of Shomeron and Galil.
Luk 17:12 And as He was entering into a certain village, He was met by ten leprous men,
who stood at a distance.
Luk 17:13
And they lifted up their voices, saying, “יהושע, Master, have compassion on us!”
Luk 17:14
And having seen them, He said to them, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.”
And it came to be, that as they were going, they were cleansed.
Luk 17:15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, praising Elohim with
a loud voice,
Luk 17:16 and he fell down upon his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And
he was a Shomeronite.
Luk 17:17
And יהושע answering,
said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine?
Luk 17:18 “Was no one found to return to give praise to Elohim, except this
STRANGER?”
Of the ten
leper's who were cleansed by Yahusha only one returned whom Yahusha called a
'Stranger', while the first blush meaning shows Samaritan/Shomeri to be a
Stranger, the actual strangers were the other nine Yahudi lepers who went to
the priest to show that they were clean and offer a sacrifice as per Torah for
their cleansing. They were the actual strangers who went back to fleshly Torah.
Yahusha was making a point here because the Yahudites considered
Shomeri's/Samaritans to be 'Foreigners' (remember we learnt that Rabbinical
Judaism still looks down on Shomeri's as Babylonians whom king of Assyria had
resettled instead of the Menashshites from Shomeron). Yahusha is showing the
audience the work of Yah in the heart of the Shomerite which caused him to
return back to the Messiah while those claiming to be part of the covenant went
into the fleshly commands of cleansing.
Shomeri’s/Samaritans though were corrupt and spoken
against for every reason, there were a remnant still chosen by Yahuah as they
were from the tribe of Manashsheh. Yahusha had a plan for them and visited them
and we see the whole account in John 4 as to how many of the Samaritans
believed that he is the Mashiyach. They wouldn't have believed he was the
Mashiyach if they had not read the Torah, the prophets and the writing's which
testified about him.
Joh 4:39 And many of the Shomeronites of that city (Sychar) believed
in Him because of the word of the woman who witnessed, “He told me all
that I have done.”
Joh 4:40 Therefore when the Shomeronites came to Him, they were asking Him to stay with
them, and He stayed there two days.
Joh 4:41 And many more believed because of His word.
Joh 4:42 And they said to the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, for
we ourselves have heard, and we know that this is truly the Messiah, the
Saviour of the world.”
Later we
have the book of Acts recording Philip going down to Shomeron and proclaimed
Mashiyach to them and a great joy came into the city as they turned to Yahuah.
Please note Yahusha had gone only into the city of Sychar which was one of the
cities of Shomeron, Philip must have been to the capital city called Shomeron
itself.
Act 8:4 Then those who had been scattered went everywhere bringing the Good News: the
Word!
Act 8:5 And
going down to the city of Shomeron Philip proclaimed Messiah to them.
Act 8:6 And
the crowds with one mind heeded what Philip said, hearing and seeing the
miracles which he did.
Act 8:7 For unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed, crying with a loud voice,
and many who were paralysed and lame were healed.
Act 8:8 And there came to be great joy in that city.
When
Yahusha was about to ascend into heaven he told his disciples that they would
receive the Set-Apart Spirit (Ruach ha Qodesh) and they would be witnesses in
Yerushalayim, in Yahudah and SHOMERON and the ends of the earth. The remnant of
Yasharal for whom the mandate was given and the covenant renewed (Heb
8: 10-13)
Act 1:6 So when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Master, would You at this
time restore the reign to Yisra’ĕl?”
Act 1:7 And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father
has put in His own authority.
Act 1:8 “But you shall receive power when the Set-apart Spirit has come upon you, and
you shall be My witnesses in Yerushalayim, and in all Yehuḏah and Shomeron, and to the end of
the earth.”
Mat 10:23 “And when they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For
truly, I say to you, you shall by no means have gone through the cities
of Yisra’ĕl before the Son of Aḏam comes.
The 'cities of
Yasharal' is a term used for the lost sheep of Yasharal scattered to the ends
of the world. We saw proof that the king of Assyria took them all captive and
left none of them but the tribe of Yahudah alone. Only a few from the tribes
returned in the days of Esarhaddon whose son Osnapper brought with him and
settled them in Shomeron and the rest beyond the River (referring to Yarden)
called Galilee of the Gentiles (Ezra 4:2,10).
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.
Mat 4:12 And יהושע, having heard
that Yoḥanan had been put in prison, withdrew into Galil.
Mat 4:13 And leaving Natsareth, He came and dwelt in Kephar Naḥum, which is by the sea,
in the borders of Zeḇulun and
Naphtali,
Mat 4:14 to
fill what was spoken by Yeshayahu the prophet, saying,
Mat
4:15 “Land of Zeḇulun and land of Naphtali, the way of the sea,
beyond the Yardĕn, Galil of the gentiles –
Mat 4:16 the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, and upon those who sat in the
land and shadow of death, light arose to them.
2Ki 15:29 In the days of Peqaḥ sovereign of Yisra’ĕl, Tiḡlath-Pileser sovereign of Ashshur
came and took Iyon, and Aḇĕl Bĕyth Maʽaḵah, and Yanowaḥ,
and Qeḏesh, and Ḥatsor,
and Gilʽaḏ, and Galil, all the
land of Naphtali, and took them into exile to Ashshur.
Lu 17:11 ¶ And it came to pass, as he went to
Yerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Shomeron and Galilee.
Their bloodline was corrupted as they had intermarried foreign women and had
their Hebrew roots diluted.
Now we can understand why Yaaqob put the younger
Ephrayim before Menashsheh the elder and 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 48:18 And Yosĕph said to his father, “Not
so, my father, for this one is the first-born, put your right hand on his
head.”
Gen 48:19 But his father refused and said, “I
know, my son, I know. He (Menashsheh) also becomes a people, and he
also is great. And yet, his younger brother is greater than he, and his
(Ephrayim's) seed is to become the completeness of the nations/gentiles.”
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.
Psa 108:7 Elohim has spoken in His set-apartness, “I exult, I
portion out Sheḵem, And I measure out the Valley of Sukkoth.
Psa 108:8 “Gilʽaḏ is Mine, Menashsheh is Mine, And Ephrayim is My chief defence, Yehuḏah is My lawgiver.
Yaqoob prophesied to Yoseph that
Menashsheh will also be great but his younger brother Ephrayim will be greater
than him. We see the story of Ruth who was a Reubenite by roots and Moabitess
by geographic location married Naomi's son Mahlon who was an Ephrathite, and
Mahlon died leaving Ruth barren. Ruth clung to Naomi by telling her ''Your
judge/alahym is my judge/alahym and your people/Ephrathites my
people/Ephrathites''
Rth 1:16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you, or to go back from
following after you. For wherever you go, I go; and wherever you stop over, I
stop over. Your people is my people, and your elohim is my elohim.
She marries Boaz a Yahudite (from Yahudah) and he gives the seed to the dead
man Mahlon the Ephrathite as per Torah redeeming her as the nearest kinsman,
thus he became the kinsman redeemer and Alahym in his wisdom fulfilled in
bringing his Son Yahusha from the lineage of both Yoseph (Ephrayim was his son)
as well as Yahudah.
Gen 49:10 “The sceptre shall not turn aside from Yehuḏah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until
Shiloh comes, and to Him is the obedience of peoples.
Gen 49:24 “But his (Yoseph's) bow remained in strength, and the arms of
his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Yaʽaqoḇ – from there is the Shepherd, the Stone
of Yisra’ĕl –
Boaz and Ruth were great grandparents of king David from whom the Messiah came
who is called Son of David.
Rth 4:18 And this is the genealogy of Perets: Perets brought forth
Ḥetsron.
Rth 4:19 And Ḥetsron brought forth Ram, and
Ram brought forth Amminaḏaḇ.
Rth 4:20 And Amminaḏaḇ brought forth
Naḥshon, and Naḥshon brought forth Salmon.
Rth 4:21 And Salmon brought forth Boʽaz, and Boʽaz (from Ruth) brought forth Oḇĕḏ.
Rth 4:22 And Oḇĕḏ brought forth
Yishai, and Yishai brought forth Dawiḏ.
This background was necessary to understand who the Samaritans were, were they
from Yasharal? Yes they were...from the tribe of Menashsheh and for every bad
reason for what they were looked down upon just as we are from the gentiles of
the nations whom (12 tribes scattered abroad) Mashiyach heals i.e. his chosen
remnant.
Rev 22:2 In the middle of its street, in between the posts, was the tree
of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every
month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the
nations/guym.
The corrupted bloodline of our fathers
through marriage with pagans is healed in Mashiyach who is the tree of life.
While I could skip all of what and who Samaritans were, I thought it necessary
to jot down their history by searching scriptures as people like Micheal Rood
(Messianic) teach that Samaritans were pagans based on Rabbanical Judaism. The
salvation program was for the lost sheep of the house of Yasharal, never for
pagans. Hence the basarah and the covenant is diluted as they teach that pagans
had a place in Yahuah's covenant by showing the example of Samaritans.
Yahusha in his parable of the Good Samaritan sets the Samaritan whom the
Yahudites considered pagan to be their neighbor.
Luk 10:30
And replying, יהושע said, “A certain man was going down from
Yerushalayim to Yericḥo, and fell among robbers, who, both stripping
and beating him, went away, leaving him half dead.
The man travelling from Yerushalam in the parable was a Yahudite whose place of
worship is Yerushalam. Where was he headed to? Yericho. Where was Yericho
located...beyond the Yarden which eastward the children of Reuben, Gad and the
other half tribe of Menashsheh received their inheritance.
Num 34:14 “For the tribe of the children of Re’uḇĕn according to the house of their
fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gaḏ according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance.
And the half-tribe of Menashsheh has received its inheritance.
Num 34:15 “The two tribes and the
half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Yardĕn of Yeriḥo
eastward, toward the sunrise.
This other half tribe of Menashsheh
beyond the Yarden were not Samaritans, these were carried captive by king of
Ashshur named Tiglath-Pileser (Pul)
1Ch 5:26 So the
Elohim of Yisra’ĕl stirred up the spirit of Pul sovereign of Ashshur,
even the spirit of Tiglath-Pileser sovereign of Ashshur. And he took the
Re’uḇĕnites, and the Gaḏites, and the half-tribe of Menashsheh into
exile, and brought them to Ḥalaḥ, and Ḥaḇor, and Hara, and the river of Gozan, unto this day.
Hence Yericho was beyond the
Yarden, the place called Galil of the nations who sat in great darkness on whom
the light had risen as Yahusha came to save the remnant from them.
Yericho was a pagan city which
Yasharal destroyed after their walls fell flat. The city was utterly destroyed
with no one dwelling in it and Yahushua/Joshua pronounced a curse on the one
who would build Yericho, he said he who rebuilds Yericho would lay its
foundation with his first-born and with his youngest he sets up with his gates.
Jos 6:26 And Yahushua
warned them at that time, saying, “Cursed is the man before יהוה who rises up and builds this city Yericḥo
– he lays its foundation with his first-born, and with his youngest he sets up
its gates.”
1Ki 16:33 And Aḥaḇ made an Ashĕrah. And Aḥaḇ did more to provoke יהוה Elohim of
Yisra’ĕl than all the sovereigns of Yisra’ĕl before him.
1Ki 16:34 In his days Ḥi’ĕl of Bĕyth Ěl built Yericḥo. He laid its foundation at the cost
of Aḇiram his
first-born, and at the cost of his youngest son Seḡuḇ he set up its gates, according to the word of יהוה, which He had
spoken through Yahushua son of Nun.
Later this city
Yericho was inhabited by children of Yasharal and that's why we see Yahusha
went to Yericho frequently (Matt 20:29, Luke 19:1) and also healed a blind
beggar on the way (Mark 10:46, Luke 18:35). The name 'Yericho' H3405 is from
two root words 'yarach' which means moon H3994 and 'ruach' H7306
'fragrant'/'ruach' H7307 'Spirit'. This city was considered to be a dark place
to be in but the fragrance of Mashiyach was seen in the remnant of the
Yasharalites who dwelt in this city.
In our previous videos in 2 parts on Daniel's 70 weeks we already saw the Babylonian captivity and return of Yahudah & rebuilding of the temple so won't cover it in this study. When Yahusha was born Rome was ruling over the nations including Yasharal and Yahudah. While some believed in Yahusha, they were persecuted, and it was clearly stated by the Sanhedrin that whoever believes in Yahusha would be excommunicated and that's why we see the believers in Mashiyach selling their lands (aqcuired through tribal inheritance) and bringing the price of it to the apostles.
Act 4:34 For there was not
anyone needy among them, for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold
them, and brought the prices of what was sold,
Act 4:35 and laid them at
the feet of the emissaries, and they distributed to each as anyone had
need.
Act 4:36 And Yosěph, who
was also called Barnaḇa by the emissaries (which means
Son of Encouragement), a Lěwite, a native of Cyprus,
Act 4:37 having land, sold
it, and brought the money and laid it at the feet of the emissaries.
In AD 70 when the Romans destroyed the temple & Yasharal and Yahudah ceased from being a nation, there arose a great persecution over the assemblies, and they were scattered to the ends of the earth.
