KEY TRUTHS

• The Twelve Tribes historically mixed with the nations

• Assimilation often followed conquest, captivity, and dispersion

• Prophets warned of this mixing and its consequences

• YaHU’aH will still gather the seed, even if scattered and blended

• From Assyria to Rome, from Persia to West Africa to Asia—the blending has spanned millennia

• Modern descendants of Yashar’al include those unaware of their heritage due to colonization, religion, and identity erasure

• YaHU’aH promises inheritance not only to the seed, but also to the strangers who join and bear children with Yashar’al

Mixed Among the Nations — A Pattern of Scattering and Blending

The history of the Twelve Tribes is not only one of captivity and scattering, but of mixing. Time and again, the Ibriym were sent into lands where they did not merely dwell—they intermarried, adopted foreign customs, and blended into other peoples. But this blending did not erase them from YaHU’aH's sight.

From the northern kingdom of Ephrayim to the southern remnant of Yahudah, mixing occurred through conquest, captivity, trade, and displacement. The Assyrian exile in 722 BCE led the Ten Tribes into Halah, Habor, and the cities of the Medes (Malakiym Shaniy 17:6). Over generations, they merged with surrounding cultures, speaking new tongues, wearing foreign garments, and worshipping strange mighty ones. The prophet HushaYAHU 7:8 declared, "Ephrayim mixes himself among the peoples; Ephrayim is a cake not turned." Half-baked—half-remembered.

This was not merely political—it was spiritual. The loss of the Torah brought confusion and compromise. In Babylon, many from Yahudah also intermarried with locals, prompting Ezra 9:1–2 and NahamiYAH 13:23–27 to rebuke and call the people to separation. Dawid’s lineage even includes Ruth the Moabitess, showing that when grafting is righteous, it can serve the plan of YaHU’aH.

Scattered Across Empires and Identities

Following Babylon and Persia, the tribes dispersed across the earth. The Greek and Roman empires saw large Hebrew populations throughout the Mediterranean—some by trade, many by force. After the Roman destruction of Yarushalayim in 70 CE, hundreds of thousands of Hebrews fled southward into North and West Africa, while others were sold into Europe, Arabia, and Asia.

Josephus wrote, “The Ten Tribes are beyond the Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude” (Antiquities 11.5.2). Hebrews settled in Persia, India, and East Africa. Others reached China via the Silk Road. The Beta Yashar’al of Ethiopia, the Lemba of southern Africa, and the Siddis of India are living testimony. Hebrews also ended up in Japan and Korea under various forms of exile and migration.

Dabariym 28:64 was fulfilled: “YaHU’aH shall scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other.” YahazqAL 12:15 affirms: “They shall know that I am YaHU’aH, when I scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries.”

The Islamic Caliphates and African Kingdoms

The rise of Islam in the 7th century added another layer. Many Hebrews were forced to convert or be expelled. In West Africa, Hebrew refugees found refuge among tribes in Mali, Ghana, Songhai, and the Yoruba. Over time, intermarriage and assimilation diluted covenant identity. Others, like the Hausa and Fulani, were absorbed into Islamic society.

In East Africa, Hebrews were taken by Arab traders and shipped across the Indian Ocean. Known today as Siddis (India) or Kaffirs (Sri Lanka), these Ibriym served in courts, plantations, and militaries. Men were often castrated and women were sexually enslaved—fulfilling Dabariym 28:41: “You shall bear sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity.”

Colonialism and Christian Conversion

During the age of European colonialism (1500s–1900s), Hebrew descendants in Africa were once again enslaved, this time through the transatlantic slave trade. Millions were taken from West and Central Africa—regions heavily populated by the descendants of Yahudah, Lewi, Binyamin, and remnants of the Ten Tribes. Portuguese, Spanish, French, and British traders targeted specific regions known for ancient Hebrew settlement.

These captives were renamed, beaten, and stripped of language and faith. Their bloodlines blended with native, European, and other enslaved peoples. The Yahudiy and Catholic missions enforced religious erasure. Colonial powers rewrote history to make the Hebrews into mere “Africans.” This fulfilled Tahilliym 83:4–5: “They have said, ‘Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Yashar’al may be remembered no more.’”

Modern Confusion — But Not Forgotten

Today, the descendants of the Twelve Tribes walk the earth under names like African-American, Afro-Brazilian, Jamaican, Haitian, Afro-Colombian, Aboriginal, Cape Coloured, Afro-Arab, Afro-Iranian, Siddi, and many others. Their identity has been diluted by Islam, Christianity, colonization, and education systems that erased all memory of their origin.

Yet, YaHU’aH declared: “I will sift the house of Yashar’al among all nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve; yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground” (Amos 9:9). Even the hidden, the mixed, the confused—He sees them all.

A Promise to the Grafted In — Land for the Joined Ones

In the book of YahazqAL, YaHU’aH goes even further—not only promising to regather Yashar’al, but to include the foreigners who joined themselves to the tribes and had children among them. YahazqAL 47:22 says: “And it shall come to pass, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, who shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Yashar’al; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Yashar’al.”

This is a direct promise from YaHU’aH. Those who walked alongside the Ibriym—who lived among them, raised children with them, and remained in the land—will share in the inheritance. Not by blood, but by loyalty. Not by lineage alone, but by covenant proximity. The stranger is no longer a stranger when he walks the covenant road. This is consistent with YashaYAHU 56:6–8, where foreigners who “join themselves to YaHU’aH” are brought to His mountain and made joyful.

In this promise, we see the full redemptive power of YaHU’aH—not only regathering His scattered seed, but honoring those who stayed near that seed in times of suffering, exile, and blending.

Prophetic Regathering Has Begun

Despite generations of mixture, silence, and deception, the awakening has begun. DNA tests confirm Hebrew markers in peoples of Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Dreams, visions, and prophecy are stirring the scattered to return to the covenant. YashaYAHU 11:12 says: “He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Yashar’al, and gather together the dispersed of Yahudah from the four four corners of the earth.”

This includes the mixed, the blended, the forgotten. The remnant is not defined by purity of blood, but by turning to truth. The B’rit is what defines the people—not geography, not language, not skin tone.

The Hidden Will Be Found—The Seed Will Rise

Though the Tribes mixed and were scattered into every people, YaHU’aH promised: “I will gather you from the peoples, assemble you from the lands where you have been scattered, and give you the land of Yashar’al” (YahazqAL 11:17). The scroll is being reopened. Those once called by bywords will be called by their true name again.

Those who were silenced will speak. Those erased will be remembered. And the covenant people, no matter how mixed or forgotten, will return to YaHU’aH with whole hearts and clean hands.

AHMAYN