[kosta50]

The House of Israel was scattered throughout all the nations, becoming Gentiles as the prophet Hosea said would happen.

What?! That's nonsense. Scattered Jews did not become Gentiles.

[StonyBurk]

Ah but they could -as a people be absorbed by the Gentile
communities —much as many other peoples in the history of the world have been i.e. the Hiksos of Egyptian history .The
comment though poorly put-remains factually true.

[ladyL]

They weren't Jews they were Israelites. Jews only came from the tribe of Judah, there were eleven other tribes. Paul was not a Jew, he was a Benjaminite. Caleb was an Ephraimite. Abraham wasn't a Jew, Isaac wasn't a Jew, Jacob wasn't a Jew, Moses wasn't a Jew he was a Levite.