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. . .in full panic at the thought these Israelites might be discovered, and their population may not be very small at all.

It struck me that there are two fears that seem to be consistant with the people that get involved against the NK descendents being the UK, US and related countries. One is the a kneejerk reaction that European types could possibly fit this bill. The other is, like you say, that there are large numbers of them. These two items are fought tooth and nail with vigor and emotion.

Talking about a large number of people, you might be interested to know that prior to its fall, Ninevah was the largest city in the world. So there may have been a lot of Israelites held captive around there at that time, but there were a lot more Assyrians, Medes and Persians there too. That would seem to indicate most of the population of the world was in that region and around the big seas, Black and Medditeranean(sp?).

Also, that's where Assurbanipal created that library of 22,000 clay tablets written in cuneiform that others are talking about here.

About 612 BC Assyria is overthrown and all hell breaks lose.