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here is connect the ships of Tarshish though as the Ships of Nineveh. If you have researched the migrations of the Northern Kingdom of Israel as we have, you will likely find as we, that they were taken captive into Assyria and upon their release once Babylon conquered Assyria, they were given their freedom by the Babylonian King. Some remained in Assyria or Nineveh, which we know today as Kurdistan and others migrated in fact, to the Philippines, the isles of the sea of Isaiah 11. Masefield takes license and adds “sweet white wine” from Ophir which many have mentioned may be a reference to palm wine, Tuba or sugarcane wine, Basi from the Philippines. Ophir also had a shipping history which rivaled the Spanish when they visited. 2 Esdras 13:39-49 KJVA And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable multitude unto him; Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land. But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt, That they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land. And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow places of the river. For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed over. For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth. Then dwelt they there until the latter time; and now when they shall begin to come, The Highest shall stay the springs of the stream again, that they may go through: therefore sawest thou the multitude with peace. But those that be left behind of thy people are they that are found within my borders. Now when he destroyeth the multitude of the nations that are gathered together, he shall defend his people that remain.
The second Exodus of the Lost Tribes of Northern Israel leads them to Arsareth on a year and a half journey from Assyria. We map this out in detail in our Lost Tribes Series. However, we are not the first to do so. In his research, detailed in his margin notes and journals, Columbus, too,
