Return to Zion
In the description of the return to Zion in 1 Chronicles, chapter 9, the returnees to the Land of Israel are described as people from the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Levi, Manasseh, and Ephraim (the latter two tribes were part of the original inhabitants of the Kingdom of Israel after the division of the united Kingdom of Israel; professors such as M.D. Cassuto and A.S. Hartum interpret this as: “the remnants of the ten tribes that settled in the Kingdom of Judah”). However, the description of the members of the tribes: Manasseh and Ephraim, is not mentioned in the description of the returnees to the Land in the Book of Ezra, where the captives of Zion are described as people from the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi (including the priests). So what is the conclusion? Who actually returned to the Land during the return to Zion? Those described in the Book of Chronicles or the Book of Ezra? Or both?
I don’t know. It’s better to ask biblical scholars.
There were several waves of immigration to the Land of Israel.
The first wave consisted mainly of important people and leaders from the Kingdom of Judah.
Later, in other waves, some of the exiles from the Kingdom of Israel apparently also returned with the Bnei Yehuda, some of whom were descendants of the Kingdom of Israel who had lived in Babylon since the Assyrian exile, and some of whom were descendants of the Kingdom of Israel who remained in the Land of Israel after the Assyrian exile and mixed with the Kingdom of Judah, which was exiled later (and were ultimately exiled with them to Babylon).
First of all, thanks to – M. So are the authors of Chronicles actually right? So the tribes we know about today are Manasseh, Ephraim, Judah, Benjamin, and Levi? There are simply Chinese who claim to be from the tribe of Manasseh, and in the Book of Chronicles it is already written that Manasseh returned to the land.
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