This king has been identified with the last king of Israel, Hoshea, who died around the same time, at the time of the Assyrian exile of the ten tribes from Israel.

The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel have fascinated historians, theologians, and explorers for centuries. After the Assyrian conquest of the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE, these tribes were said ...

As Zvi Ben-Dor Benite shows, the Lost Tribes constitute a mythology that is both potent and enduring. The basic biblical story is familiar enough. Jacob’s twelve sons spawned the twelve tribes ...

Other Christians saw in the Native tribes not lost Israelites but to-be-defeated Canaanites, from whom the Children of Israel had conquered the Promised Land.