J. L. Roden, by comparing biblical and secular sources, attempts to identify the dispersed tribes of Israel. The combined size of Israel’s and Judah’s armies comprised 1,200,000 men, placing the estimated size of Israel at 4,000,000. Israel lost about 500,000 men, making it vulnerable to Assyrian attack. From secular history, it has become apparent that military and trading alliances were made between Israel and Tyre and Sidon. This alliance caused Israel to become identified with the Phoenicians in certain secular histories. Prior the Assyrian captivity, a portion of Israel, evidently referred to as Scythians by Greek secular history, migrated north through Armenia and the Black Sea, blazing the way for subsequent tribes, including Dan. Paul, in Colossians by juxtaposing the Scythians in opposition to the Barbarians, seems to indicate that he may have considered them to be kinsmen.

Ahab’s reign * Alliance * America B.C. * Famine * Asah * Assyria * Barbarians * Carthage * Colossians 3:9-11 * Utica * Ezekiel 27 * Fell, Barry * First Book of the Lost Tribes of Israel * I Chronicles 21:5-6 * I Kings 5:16: 20, 17:1,3; 18:1-2 * Funk and Wagnall’s Encyclopedia * Greek * Hiram * Hosea * II Chronicles5:23-25; 8:18-13: 3 II * Samuel 5:11 * J.C. Crawford * Jeremiah 3:11 * Jezebel * Joab * Josiah * Phoenicians * II Chronicles 34: 8; 35:1,16 * Sidonians * Steven Collins

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