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House of Israel (the 10-tribed northern Kingdom) commenced and the people were deported to the
cities of the Medes.

The House of Judah (the 2-tribed southern Kingdom) suffered a similar fate in 604 B.C. when
the first captivity of Judah began and Daniel and his companions were taken to Babylon. By 585 B.C.
Jerusalem was captured by the enemy, the city and Temple destroyed, and the deportation of Judah
completed.

The Appointed Place

During the time the Israelites were captives in the land of Egypt, various groups managed to es-
cape and find their way to the island of Crete and areas surrounding the Aegean Sea. From these areas
the Israelite groups eventually found their way across Europe to the Appointed Place. YEHOVAH God
who had established His Kingdom at Mount Sinai was actually preparing for the transplanting and set-
ting up of that Kingdom in the Isles of the Sea -- far removed from the trouble and turmoil that followed
the reign of the Babylonian Succession of Empires. In preparation for planting His people Israel in the
Isles of the Sea, YEHOVAH sent an advance guard of the royal line of Judah to rule over His people
when they arrived.

Shortly after the Exodus one of these groups, under the leadership of Gathelus, found its way to
the shores of Ireland. Gathelus was the son of Cecrops -- an Israelite who fled Egypt and founded the
city of Athens. According to The Harmsworth Encyclopedia, Cecrops was none other than Calcol
of I Chronicles 2:6 -- the son of Zarah and grandson of Judah. In my article The Incredible Story of
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Lia Fail wrote: "It is stated that Calcol was the leader of a band of Hebrew colonists from Egypt,
who evidently left before the Exodus of the Bible." Herman L. Hoeh, in his Compendium of World
History, states that "Athenian history commences with the founding of the city by Cecrops in 1556
[B.C.]" (Vol. I, p. 390).

Gathelus, the son of Cecrops, went to Egypt during the time of Moses to make contact with his
brethren there. While in the land, "Pharaoh gave him one of his own daughters to wife. This lady was
called Scota....She bore her husband two sons in Egypt, namely Eber Finn and Amerghin" (Geoffrey
Keating, The History of Ireland). However, Gathelus soon incurred the wrath of the Pharaoh because
of his friendship with Moses and the Israelites. According to Keating, "Pharaoh Intur and the
Egyptians...remembered their old grudge to...the family of Gaedal [Gathelus], namely their resentment
for the friendship the latter had formed with the children of Israel. They [the Egyptians], then, made war
upon the Gaels, who were thereby compelled to exile themselves from Egypt" (History of Ireland
from the Earliest Period to the English Invasion, pp. 153-156).

Hector Boece, in his Chronicles of Scotland, wrote: "A short while afterwards he [Gathelus]
provisioned a ship and sailed out of the mouth of the River Nile with his wife, friends and servants --
Greeks and Egyptians -- for fear of the plagues of God" (pp. 22-24). After wending their way to Crete,
Samothrace, Gotland, Norway, and finally Spain, the exiled Israelites, with their Judahite leaders, set
about building towns which are known today as Barsale and Compestella. According to Boece,
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