<P> And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee . </P> <P> But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes . </P> <P> According to Zvi Ben - Dor Benite: </P> <P> Centuries after their disappearance, the ten lost tribes sent an indirect but vital sign...In 2 Esdras, we read about the ten tribes and "their long journey through that region, which is called Arzareth"... The book of the "Vision of Ezra", or Esdras, was written in Hebrew or Aramaic by a Palestinian Jew sometime before the end of the first century CE, shortly after the destruction of the temple by the Romans . It is one of a group of texts later designated as the so - called Apocrypha--pseudoepigraphal books attached to but not included in the Hebrew biblical canon . </P>

Where are the 10 lost tribes of israel now