[aimhigh]

"Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” . . . The woman said to Him, “ . . Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, . . "

[Verginius Rufus]

The core area of the Northern Kingdom was where the tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim settled—descendants of the sons of Joseph who was a son of Jacob. The other northern tribes were descended from other sons of Jacob—Reuben, Dan, Asher, Gad, Nephthali, Issachar, Zebulon. (Not sure what happened to Simeon—that tribe was settled south of Judah...but Joseph having two tribes makes 13 tribes.) Levites presumably divided between the two kingdoms.