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When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mustered the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin ... to make war against the house of Israel

1 Kings 12:21

The house of Judah separated with the tribes of Benjamin and Levi and are now the modern day Jews. The house of Israel are the remaining tribes who chose to follow Ephraim and Manasseh, and were later taken into bondage and became the missing ten tribes of Israel. Three from twelve is nine in my book, so why are they called the missing ten? Why during the division did those who followed the combined tribes of Joseph become called the house of Israel?

Your unique interpretations of completely out of context verses sound so *right* don't they? It's all the things in between which you left out that show the desperate search to eliminate not just the House of Yehuda, but also Benyamin and Levi. Don't you know that it was designated that ONLY the House of Levi were to be accepted into priesthood? What is your problem with the ENTIRE Old testament that you so rudely posit unconnected pronouncements to make a point that is illegitimate on its face?
Genesis 49:8-10
Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise;
Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies;
Thy father's sons shall bow down before thee.
Judah is a lion's whelp;
From the prey, my son, thou art gone up.
He stooped down, he couched as a lion,
And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?
The sceptere shall not depart from Judah,
Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet,
As long as men come to Shiloh;
And unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be.

Genesis 49:28

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is it that their father spoke unto them and blessed them.

And BTW, Joseph went to help bury his father and returned to live out his life in Egypt. His dying words were for his brothers NOT to leave his bones in Egypt. So during the Exodus, they did indeed gather Joseph's bones and carry them back to the land which G-d promised them. That land was and is ISRAEL.