Ten Lost Tribes Ten Lost Tribes The ten lost tribes were the ten of the Twelve Tribes of Israel that were said to have been deported from the Kingdom of Israel after its conquest by the Neo-Assyrian Empire circa 722 BCE. These are the tribes of Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Manasseh and Ephraim. Claims of descent from the "lost" tribes have been proposed in relation to many groups, and some religions espouse a messianic view that the tribes will return. In the 7th and 8th centuries CE, the return of the lost tribes was associated with the concept of
Cultural references to Samson "Hallelujah" which makes references to Samson and Delilah. A later album, Popular Problems contains the song 'Samson in New Orleans', which contains the lines "Stand me by those pillars/Let me take this temple down". The Cranberries have a song called "Delilah" written from the perspective of a woman fighting off a conniving temptress. Mandy Moore and Jonathon Foreman (from Switchfoot) have a song called "Someday We'll Know" for the movie "A Walk To Remember" with references to Samson and Delilah in the chorus. Bishop Allen released a song called "Empire City" that references Samson with the lines: "Samson suffered the