This short writing proves that there were never really 10 lost tribes of Israel, as is commonly taught today in many different places. The 10 tribes who were exiled by God from Israel were never lost, and individual members of each of the 10 dispersed tribes chose to either return to Israel or to stay in the diaspora and live as a descendant of Israel, or to intermarry and leave their ancestral heritage. Representatives of all the 12 tribes of Israel who were exiled by God because of their sin returned to God and returned again to settle Israel and Jerusalem.