“Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.”
I Kings 4:25

Anyone even slightly familiar with the history of the 12 tribes of Israel knows that there have been tremendous movements of these people. The location of the people has varied greatly over time. Before 745 B.C., the 12 tribes were in Palestine. By 700 B.C., most of Israel and Judah were in Assyria. By 604 B.C., the remnant of Judah was in Babylon. Seventy years later, part of this remnant returned to Palestine. In A.D. 70, the “Jewish” nation was destroyed under Titus. One extremely important point is that most of Judah also went into Assyrian captivity (8 years later than the house of Israel.) II Kings 11: 13 and Isaiah 36: 1 tells us that Sennacherib came up against the fenced cities of Judah and took them. In the Bible Research Handbook, we have a copy of Sennacherib’s monument in which he relates the exact number of the people of Judah that he carried away to Assyria 200,150. We know that less than 15,000 were taken to Babylon. The ratio is 14 to 1 for every 1 Judahite who went to Babylon, 13 went to Assyria.

What happened to Israel and Judah in Assyrian captivity? The details of this exciting story would take a whole book to relate. In brief, by land and sea they moved slowly over the centuries, north and west until they came to Western Europe and the British Isles. Up until 1620 A.D., that is where they were. Then another great movement began the move to the Americas in answer to the prophecy of II Samuel 7: 10. In 1800 most of the people were still in the Isles and western Europe; even by 1900 this was still true. But time changes things and today most of the people are on this continent. Some, of course, moved to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Rhodesia and other places in the British Commonwealth during this colonizing period.

Take a look at the numbers the U.S. has a population of 275 million and Canada has 31 million which totals 306 million. The population of Great Britain is 59.5 million, Denmark 5.3, Sweden 8.8, Norway 4.4, Netherlands 15.9, Australia 19. 1, New Zealand 3.8, Finland 5.1, Iceland .276, Switzerland 7.2, for a total of 129.4 million.

That is a 2 to 1 ratio 2 in the U.S. and Canada for every 1 anywhere else in the world. Again let me emphasize, we are talking about today. Historically, there were large Israelite populations in France and Germany and there are still Israel people there today. However, it seems to be difficult to get an ethnic break down of their current populations. So therefore, it is difficult to know what those numbers would be. There are some Israel people all over the world but it would be extremely difficult to make an accurate population count.

What does this mean as far as who is who and what is what today? I believe it means that the U.S. represents the 10 tribes of Israel and Canada represents the 2 tribes of Judah. I will show you why I believe this to be so. Please notice that I am NOT saying that Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands, South Africa, Rhodesia, Australia, and New Zealand are not Israel nations. Of course they are! I am only saying that more of the Israel people today are in the U.S. and Canada than in all the other Israel countries combined.

Take a look at the chart and notice Judah in particular. Every Judahite is NOT a Jew; only the SHELAH Judah branch of Judah have been or are known as Jews. As you can see, Shelah Judah represents approximately 1/51 of the whole house of Israel in the 4th generation from Abraham. ZARAH Judah were some of the first Israel people to leave the rest of the Israel family. When Jeremiah arrived in Great Britain with Zedekiah’s daughter, Tea Tephi (Pharez Judah) they found Eochaid (Zarah Judah) already there. When Eochaid and Tea Tephi were married, these two lines were joined. Since that time, the British royal line has been a joint Pharez Zarah Judah line. It would follow that most of Zarah Judah and Pharez Judah would migrate where their leaders that is the royal family were geographically located.