41. Or they advance across a game board as a tribe of Israel , racing to settle the ancient land. 42. Immigrants from various countries and native-born Israelis lit 12 torches representing the biblical 12 tribes of Israel . 43. And the people grieved for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a void in the tribes of Israel . 44. Jacob, in turn, has twelve sons : the ancestors of the " twelve Tribes of Israel ". 45. In 2002 he published his " Lost Tribes of Israel : the History of a Myth ." 46. The sect claimed literal descent from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel , and they practiced divination and polygamy. 47. That dilemma drove Saul mad and gave David the opening he needed to assume leadership among the tribes of Israel . 48. But 12 was found to hold great Judeo-Christian symbolism through the 12 tribes of Israel and 12 apostles. 49. The Black Hebrews claim to be descendants of the lost tribes of Israel , who found their roots in Israel. 50. From that time, the Tribe of Ephraim has been counted as one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel .
