Would you happen to know how the Cohanim and Levi’im responded when the kings of the Northern kingdom (Israel) decided to build their own temples of sacrifice (e.g., in the cities Sebastiya and Dan, if I’m not mistaken—and perhaps elsewhere)?

That is, did they go along with it? Did they protest? Did they refuse? Did they flee south to the Kingdom of Judah?

Thanks….

They were intermarried.

Judah thought they were separate but Judah wasn’t correct all the time.

Jesus claimed he was here for the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel, and not for the goyim gentiles (that came later with Paul).

Thus Jesus when he met the Samaritans, could have ignored them if they were not of the House of Israel.

The Samaritans were a separate people who lived amongst the Israelites in the Northern Kingdom.

Barry:

The Levites actually had 42 cities to dwell in; among these were the six Cities of Refuge.

Everyone else:

There are plenty of Levites still around today. Anyone with the following last names (whose last name predated their arrival in America) may be presumed to be a Levite or of the more specific Priestly (Cohanic) tribe:
Levi, Levy, Levin(e), Segal (an acronym for Levite Assistant), Cohen, Katz (an acronym for “righteous Cohen”)

There are some other family names the entirety of which are Levite, absent any linguistic connection. For example, Horowitz.

Cohanim and Levite men to this day have some special roles and duties in Jewish religious ritual and liturgy, more so in Israel than in the diaspora.

– Yackums, your friendly neighborhood Levite

This resulted in the Samaritan people. The Assyrians, like many Empires, would translocate people around so that they do not present a military threat or a threat of rebellion.

Nebu of Babylon grabbed most of Judah’s leaders, killing the rest.

The knowledge currently on the Assyrians is a bit sparse. There is a connection with the Sea People though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples

When Atlantis fell, their colonies would become disconnected and out of resources, with economic disruption.

Little further expansion took place under Shamshi-Adad V and his successor, the regent queen Semiramis, however when Adad-nirari III (811-783 BC) came of age, he took the reins of power from mother and set about a relentless campaign of conquest; subjugated the Arameans, Phoenicians, Philistines, Israelites, Neo-Hittites and Edomites, Persians, Medes and Manneans, penetrating as far as the Caspian Sea. He invaded and subjugated Babylonia, and then the migrant Chaldean and Sutean tribes settled in south eastern Mesopotamia whom he conquered and reduced to vassalage.

After the reign of Adad-nirari III, Assyria entered a period of instability and decline, losing its hold over most of its vassal and tributary territories by the middle of the 8th century BC, until the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III (745-727 BC). He created the world’s first professional army, introduced Imperial Aramaic as the lingua franca of Assyria and its vast empire, and reorganised the empire drastically. Tiglath-Pileser III conquered as far as the East Mediterranean, bringing the Greeks of Cyprus, Phoenicia, Judah, Philistia, Samarra and the whole of Aramea under Assyrian control. Not satisfied with merely holding Babylonia in vassalage, Tiglath-Pileser deposed its king and had himself crowned king of Babylon. The imperial, economic, political, military and administrative reforms of Tiglath-Pileser III were to prove a blueprint for future empires, such as those of the Persians, Greeks, Romans, Carthaginians, Byzantines, Arabs and Turks.

The connection is that the Norse vikings figured out how to travel down to Constantinople through porting their vessels across the major rivers. The Assyrian empire would have been in range to do the opposite if they had the boat technology and funding.

Thus it is not impossible for the Assyrians to have dispersed certain people to places that they could not easily get back from.

For example, Jesus’ uncle, the rich one, had mines in Britain. Rome was a cosmopolitan empire. Traveling through the great rivers to Constantinople was actually easier than traveling the Med sea.

The weird thing is that if they were taken to Mesopotamia, the capital where the Assyrians ruled over temporarily, Daniel and others in the B Captivity should have noticed them. They were close enough. But it was recorded that these tribes were never heard from again. It is possible they could have lost their language and inheritance culturally.

Assyria lost their main army. No wonder.

Those are the peaceful ones.

LOL

The tribes of Joseph, Levi and Simeon are a bit unusual, the first two for one reason and the third for a different reason.

According to the tradition, all three, as sons of Jacob, were considered tribes (along with the other nine = 12).

However, Joseph, receiving a “double portion”, was split in two (his two sons, Ephraim, the younger, and Menashe, the elder), each of whom became a “tribe” in its own right and each receiving an allotment in the Holy Land. (Though the tribe of Menashe also split itself into two parts, one part being allotted territory west of the Jordan River and one part being allotted territory east of the Jordan River—in present day Jordan.)

Levi, while an original tribe, did not receive an allotment of territory like the other tribes; instead, it was charged with assisting the priests (who were themselves of the tribe of Levi, descending from Aaron) in matters relating to sacrifices and the tabernacle (later, the temple). Originally, such assistance was supposed to have been the responsibility of the first born of all the tribes (because they were “saved” or “redeemed”, as it were, not having been killed during the last of the 10 plagues suffered by the Egyptians); but following their failure during the episode of the golden calf, the tribe of Levi, having joined Moses in the fight against that idolatry, was appointed to the role instead. Note that the Levites did not receive territory but were allotted “cities of refuge” (six, originally—three on either side of the Jordan River), where they could settle and own homes.

By not being allotted territory, one could say that Levi, ultimately, “lost” its status as a “tribe”; however the number of tribes remained 12: the original 12 minus two (Joseph and Levi), with Ephraim and Menashe bringing the number back up to 12.

During the period of the two kingdoms (“Israel” in the northern part of the Holy Land and “Judah” in the southern part), i.e., the period following the breakup of the Davidic/Solomonic empire (i.e., following Solomon’s death), the kingdom of Judah included the territory of Benjamin (though it also subsumed part of the territory of Simeon).

The other ten tribes (including part of Simeon) formed the northern kingdom of Israel, keeping in mind that the tribes of Reuven and Gad were allotted territory to the east of the Jordan River.

These ten tribes were, for the most part exiled to various places by the Assyrians following the Assyrians conquest of the northern kingdom around 723 BCE (hence the “ten lost tribes”). However, not all of them were exiled, and while some were exiled to points unknown, others ended up in Mesopotamia, where they were joined about 140 years later by their coreligionists from Judah after the latter had been conquered by the Babylonians and were exiled, similarly, eastwards.

Approximately 50 years later (that is, following the Persian defeat of the Babylonians), the Persian king, Cyrus, allowed the Judeans (from whence the “Jews”) to return to the Holy Land; and although a significant number decided to stay in Mesopotamia, some of those who opted to return were those members of the 10 tribes who had preceded them to that region (140 years earlier).

There goes that archaeological pet theory that everybody came over from the Asian land bridge idea. Humans always come up with the funniest ideas.

Also some red tribes in North America now say they have connections to Hebrew songs and customs.

Plato talked about Atlantis using ships to create colonies and trade routes.

Lizzy, sounds like you are channeling Sarah Sanders’s mic drop at the press conference.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/sarah-sanders-responds-to-iran-critics.php
“Q Thank you, Sarah. Yesterday, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and former President Barack Obama all weighed in on the President’s Iran decision. … What is the President’s response to them? …

MS. SANDERS: I think based on each of those individuals’ lack of success in this entire process on foreign affairs, they would probably be the last three people that we would look to for advice and counsel, and whether or not we had made the right decisions.”

Video here

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/05/sarah-huckabee-sanders-shuts-down-the-democrats.php