"Israelite identity is based on the Bible, history, and archaeology. According to some Black Hebrew Israelite Groups, the twelve tribes of Israel are Blacks only, and the understanding of the tribes is unknown. Those groups teach that according to ""Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?"" According to other groups, this means that all 12 tribes look like the Ethiopians which includes children of the slave-trade including all"
"the Houses of Israel and Judah are the modern-day Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Germanic, Nordic, and kindred peoples. Some CI scholars teach the belief that many contemporary Jews are the descendants of Cain, citing Genesis 3:15, John 8:44 and 1 John 3:12 in support of their position; they also teach that Cain was the spawn of Satan. Identity teaches that ""Israel"" was the name given to Jacob after he wrestled with the angel at Peniel as described in Genesis 32:26–32. ""Israel"" then had twelve sons, which began the Twelve Tribes of Israel. In 975 BC the ten northern tribes revolted, seceded from"
"Tribe of Benjamin According to the Torah, the Tribe of Benjamin (Hebrew: שֵׁבֶט בִּנְיָמִֽן, ""Shevet Binyamin"") was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The tribe was descended from Benjamin, the youngest son of the patriarch Jacob and his wife Rachel. In the Samaritan Pentateuch the name appears as ""Binyamīm"" (). The Tribe of Benjamin, located to the north of Judah but to the south of the northern Kingdom of Israel, is significant in biblical narratives as a source of various Israelite leaders including the first Israelite king, Saul, as well as earlier tribal leaders in the period of the"
"Tribe of Simeon According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Simeon (; ) was one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The Book of Judges locates its territory inside the boundaries of the Tribe of Judah. It is one of the ten lost tribes. The biblical narrative has it coming into the land of Israel following the Exodus, while scholarly reconstructions have offered a variety of opinions as to its origins and early history. From Genesis until the Babylonian captivity, the Bible provides various details about its history, after which point it disappears from the record. A variety of"
"of the Kingdom of Israel (Ephraim), and the leading tribe (Judah) of Kingdom of Judah. Tribe of Benjamin According to the Torah, the Tribe of Benjamin (Hebrew: שֵׁבֶט בִּנְיָמִֽן, ""Shevet Binyamin"") was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The tribe was descended from Benjamin, the youngest son of the patriarch Jacob and his wife Rachel. In the Samaritan Pentateuch the name appears as ""Binyamīm"" (). The Tribe of Benjamin, located to the north of Judah but to the south of the northern Kingdom of Israel, is significant in biblical narratives as a source of various Israelite leaders including the"
"all are welcome. The Twelve Tribes of Israel is a Rastafari group founded in Kingston, Jamaica in 1968, and now functioning worldwide. Its founder, Vernon Carrington, was known as Prophet Gad, and taught his students to read the Bible 'a chapter a day'. Twelve Tribes of Israel (Ysrayl) Rastafari organization accept Jesus Christ as Master and Saviour, and Haile Selassie I as divinely chosen by the Creator to represent him on earth. Due to the stigma associated with slavery and the use of the name ""Jesus"" by outsiders, Some Rastafari prefer to use the ancient names of The Messiah (Ha"
"the Hebrew Bible the term ""Israelites"" is used interchangeably with the term ""Twelve Tribes of Israel"". Although related, the terms Hebrews, Israelites, and Jews are not interchangeable in all instances. ""Israelites"" (""Yisraelim"") refers specifically to the direct descendants of any of the sons of the patriarch Jacob (later called Israel), and his descendants as a people are also collectively called ""Israel"", including converts to their faith in worship of the god of Israel, Yahweh. ""Hebrews"" (""ʿIvrim""), on the contrary, is used to denote the Israelites' immediate forebears who dwelt in the land of Canaan, the Israelites themselves, and the Israelites'"
"Israel will be sealed. The selection of the twelve tribes does not include the names of Ephraim and Dan, although their names were used for the twelve tribes that settled in the Promised Land. It has been suggested that this could be because of their pagan practices. This led Irenaeus, Hippolytus of Rome and some Millennialists to propose that the Antichrist will come from the tribe of Dan. Tribe of Dan The Tribe of Dan (), meaning, ""Judge,"" was one of the tribes of Israel, according to the Torah. They were allocated a coastal portion of land when the people"
"Tribes of Israel and states that there are actually only nine since the remnant of the tribe of Dan was confirmed to be the Beta Israel of Ethiopia. Travelling from western Europe to China and India, Jacobovici finds tantalizing evidence that the ""lost tribes"" are, like the tribe of Dan, not really lost. The tribe of Dan is the only original tribe of Israel not to be included in the Book of Revelation's list of tribes that are sealed. No mention is made of why it is excluded. The 2004 documentary, produced by Jacobovici and directed by Tim Wolochatiuk, is"
"Tribe of Zebulun According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Zebulun (alternatively rendered as ""Zabulon, Zabulin, Zabulun, Zebulon""; ) was one of the twelve tribes of Israel. It is one of the ten lost tribes. Following the completion of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelite tribes in the Book of Joshua, Joshua allocated the land among the twelve tribes. The territory Zebulun was allocated was at the southern end of the Galilee, with its eastern border being the Sea of Galilee, the western border being the Mediterranean Sea, the south being bordered by the Tribe of Issachar, and"
"Tribe of Judah According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Judah (, ""Shevet Yehudah"") was one of the twelve Tribes of Israel. The Tribe of Judah, its conquests, and the centrality of its capital in Jerusalem for the worship of the god Yahweh figure prominently in the Deuteronomistic history, encompassing the books of Deuteronomy through II Kings, which most scholars agree was reduced to written form, although subject to exilic and post-exilic alterations and emendations, during the reign of the Judahist reformer Josiah from 641–609 BCE. According to the account in the Book of Joshua, following a partial conquest"
"years, and begat Terah ... Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran ... and Haran begat Lot The twelve tribes of Israel include ten of the sons of Jacob (excluding Levi and Joseph) and the two sons of Joseph. Many major world religions trace their origin back to the patriarch Abraham. Israel was the name given to Jacob, grandson of Abraham. All Jews consider themselves to be descendants of Abraham through his son Isaac. Abraham believed God, so in general all people with faith in God are considered sons of Abraham. Islam regards Abraham (Ibrahim) as the"
"beliefs as Jews, and that he has genetic evidence to prove that the Druze were descended from Jews. Tribe of Zebulun According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Zebulun (alternatively rendered as ""Zabulon, Zabulin, Zabulun, Zebulon""; ) was one of the twelve tribes of Israel. It is one of the ten lost tribes. Following the completion of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelite tribes in the Book of Joshua, Joshua allocated the land among the twelve tribes. The territory Zebulun was allocated was at the southern end of the Galilee, with its eastern border being the Sea of"
"Tribe of Gad According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Gad () was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel who, after the Exodus from Egypt, settled on the eastern side of the Jordan River. It is one of the ten lost tribes. From after the conquest of the land by Joshua until the formation of the first Kingdom of Israel in c. 1050 BC, the Tribe of Gad was a part of a loose confederation of Israelite tribes. No central government existed, and in times of crisis the people were led by ad hoc leaders known as Judges."
"be an anachronism, though it could possibly refer to Buyid Dynasty Persia). Tribe of Simeon According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Simeon (; ) was one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The Book of Judges locates its territory inside the boundaries of the Tribe of Judah. It is one of the ten lost tribes. The biblical narrative has it coming into the land of Israel following the Exodus, while scholarly reconstructions have offered a variety of opinions as to its origins and early history. From Genesis until the Babylonian captivity, the Bible provides various details about its"
"of Aram and the annexed part of Israel was deported to Assyria. Israel continued to exist within the reduced territory as an independent kingdom until around 720 BCE, when it was again invaded by Assyria and the rest of the population deported. The Bible relates that the population of Israel was exiled, becoming known as the Ten Lost Tribes, leaving only the Tribe of Judah, the Tribe of Simeon (that was ""absorbed"" into Judah), the Tribe of Benjamin and the people of the Tribe of Levi who lived among them of the original Israelites nation in the southern Kingdom of"
"Tribe of Reuben According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Reuben () was one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Unlike the majority of the tribes, the land of Reuben, along with that of Gad and half of Manasseh, was on the eastern side of the Jordan. According to the biblical narrative, the Tribe of Reuben descended from Reuben, the oldest son of the patriarch Jacob. Reuben, along with nine other tribes, is reckoned by the Bible as part of the northern kingdom of Israel, and disappears from history with the demise of that kingdom in c. 723 BC."
"Tribe of Ephraim According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Ephraim (, ""Efrayim"") was one of the Tribes of Israel. The Tribe of Manasseh together with Ephraim formed the ""House of Joseph"". It is one of the ten lost tribes. The etymology of the name is disputed. According to the Bible, the Tribe of Ephraim is descended from a man named Ephraim, who is recorded as the son of Joseph, the son of Jacob, and Asenath, the daughter of Potiphar. The descendants of Joseph formed two of the tribes of Israel, whereas the other sons of Jacob were the"
"of the 12 tribes of Israel. Rabbi Samuel bar Isaac said that the stones of the breastplate also contained the names of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But the Gemara noted that the Hebrew letter , ""teth"", was also missing. Rav Aha bar Jacob said that they also contained the words: ""The tribes of Jeshurun."" The Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer taught that when Israel sinned in the matter of the devoted things, as reported in Joshua looked at the 12 stones corresponding to the 12 tribes that were upon the High Priest's breastplate. For every tribe that had sinned, the light of"
"Tribe of Issachar According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Issachar () was one of the twelve tribes of Israel. It is one of the ten lost tribes. In Jewish tradition, the tribe of Issachar was seen as being dominated by religious scholars and influential in proselytism. In the Biblical narrative of the Book of Joshua, following the completion of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelite tribes, Joshua allocated the land among the twelve tribes. The territory which it was allocated was immediately north of (the western half of) Manasseh, and south of Zebulun and Naphtali, stretching from"
"twelve tribes of Israel."" New Testament scholar Bart D. Ehrman concludes, ""This is not a tradition that was likely to have been made up by a Christian later, after Jesus's death—since one of these twelve had abandoned his cause and betrayed him. No one thought that ""Judas Iscariot"" would be seated on a glorious throne in the Kingdom of God. That saying, therefore appears to go back to Jesus, and indicates, then, that he had twelve close disciples, whom he predicted would reign in the coming Kingdom."" Although the canonical gospels frequently disagree on the names of some of the"
"music in the Temple or served as guards. When Joshua led the Israelites into the land of Canaan the Levites were the only Israelite tribe that received cities but were not allowed to be landowners because ""the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, as he said to them"" (). Notable descendants of the Levite lineage according to the Bible include Miriam, Samuel, Ezekiel, Ezra, Malachi, and John the Baptist. According to the Torah, the tribe is named after Levi, one of the twelve sons of Jacob (also called Israel). Levi had three sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari (). Kohath's"
"of the Israelites, also known as the ""Twelve Tribes of Israel"" or ""Children of Israel"". Jacob and his sons had lived in Canaan but were forced by famine to go into Egypt for four generations, lasting 430 years, until Moses, a great-great grandson of Jacob, led the Israelites back into Canaan during the ""Exodus"". The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word ""Israel"" as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late 13th century BCE). The area is also known as the Holy Land, being holy for all Abrahamic religions including Judaism, Christianity, Islam"
"of a common ancestor Jacob. It also suggests that the nomadic travels of the Hebrews centered on Hebron in the first centuries of the second millennium BCE, leading to the establishment of the Cave of the Patriarchs as their burial site in Hebron. The Children of Israel, in this account, consisted of twelve tribes, each descended from one of Jacob's twelve sons, Reuven, Shimon, Levi, Yehuda, Yissachar, Zevulun, Dan, Gad, Naftali, Asher, Yosef, and Benyamin. The Book of Genesis, chapters 25–50, tells the story of Jacob and his twelve sons, who left Canaan during a severe famine and settled in"
"Tribe of Naphtali The Tribe of Naphtali () was one of the twelve tribes of Israel. It was one of the northernmost of the tribes. It is one of the ten lost tribes. In the biblical account, following the completion of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelite Joshua allocated the land among the twelve tribes. Kenneth Kitchen, a well-known conservative biblical scholar, dates this event to slightly after 1200 BCE. However, the consensus view of modern scholars is that the conquest of Joshua as described in the Book of Joshua never occurred. According to the Bible Joshua assigned Naphtali"
"the south, and became the Kingdom of Israel. After they were subsequently conquered by Assyria at approximately 721 BC, the ten tribes disappeared from the Biblical record and became known as the Lost Tribes of Israel. According to Identity doctrine, 2 Esdras 13:39–46 then records the history of the nation of Israel journeying over the Caucasus mountains, along the Black Sea, to the Ar Sereth tributary of the Danube in Romania (""But they formed this plan for themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the nations and go to a more distant region, where no human beings had ever"
"the Israelites, whom God consecrated when God smote the firstborn in Egypt. In the fifth reading (, ""aliyah""), God then told Moses to record by ancestral house and by clan the Levite men from the age of one month up, and he did so. The Levites divided by their ancestral houses, based on the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. The total number of the Levites came to 22,000. In the sixth reading (, ""aliyah""), God instructed Moses to record every firstborn male of the Israelites aged one month old and upwards, and they came to 22,273. God told"
"Israelites The Israelites (; ""Bnei Yisra'el"") were a confederation of Iron Age Semitic-speaking tribes of the ancient Near East, who inhabited a part of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods. According to the religious narrative of the Hebrew Bible, the Israelites' origin is traced back to the Biblical patriarchs and matriarchs Abraham and his wife Sarah, through their son Isaac and his wife Rebecca, and their son Jacob who was later called Israel, whence they derive their name, with his wives Leah and Rachel and the handmaids Zilpa and Bilhah. Modern archaeology has largely discarded the historicity of the"
"referring to a man from the tribe of Benjamin: The name appears in the Bible as a verb in which states: In some places in the Talmud the word ""Israel(ite)"" refers to somebody who is Jewish but does not necessarily practice Judaism as a religion: ""An Israel(ite) even though he has sinned is still an Israel(ite)"" (Tractate ""Sanhedrin"" 44a). More commonly the Talmud uses the term ""Bnei Yisrael"", i.e. ""Children of Israel"", (""Israel"" being the name of the third patriarch Jacob, father of the sons that would form the twelve tribes of Israel, which he was given and took after"
"their request, only received inheritance on the east bank of the Jordan, and not in the Land of Canaan. The list begins with Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, who led the entire nation. Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh appear on this list as well as the list of the spies, the other ten spies having died in punishment for slandering the Holy Land. Leaders of the tribes of Israel The Torah gives several lists of leaders of the tribes of Israel. The first, and main, list appears in . It lists the"
"The Twelve Spies The Twelve Spies (), as recorded in the Book of Numbers, were a group of Israelite chieftains, one from each of the Twelve Tribes, who were dispatched by Moses to scout out the Land of Canaan for 40 days as a future home for the Israelite people, during the time when the Israelites were in the wilderness following their Exodus from Ancient Egypt. The account is found in . God had promised Abraham that there would be a Promised Land for the nations to come out of his son, Isaac. The land of Canaan which the spies"
"early stage, it had become fixed that there were 12 tribes, but then reality changed. Levi had been a tribe like any other with its own tribal land, but then Levi became essentially landless, a scattered people of priests and religious functionaries, with only a few cities of their own. Simeon disappeared. To compensate for at least one of these absences, the territory elsewhere attributed to Joseph was counted as two territories, each with its own ancestor figure, Ephraim and Manasseh. The Israelites told that Joseph had two sons by those names, each a tribal founder. That way, a tribal"
"the 12 tribes of Israel, and the 12 months of the Hebrew calendar, as well as to early ""scientific"" or philosophical ideas such as the 4 elements (fire, water, air, earth), the 7 planets, 10 directions, the 12 zodiacal constellations, various human physical functions, and a list of the parts of the human body. The book describes how God used the 10 sefirot and the 22 Hebrew letters in various combinations, and finally (as described in the closing section of the book), how he revealed this secret to Abraham as a covenant with him. God's covenant with Abraham is described"