This podcast gives the historical context of the Lost Ten Tribes from the time of the United Kingdom of Israel in the days of King Solomon to the time the lost tribes were deported to Assyria in 721 BC. With the death of Solomon in about 975 BC, the United kingdom divided into the Northern Kingdom of Israel led by Jeroboam and the Kingdom of Judah in the south led by Solomon's son, Rehoboam. The Northern Kingdom consisted of ten tribes although the intermixing of the tribes makes this number somewhat symbolical. The ten tribes in the north were consistently wicked and the Lord sent prophets among them warning of their destruction. This commenced in 745 BC when the northern ten tribes became a vassal state to the Assyrian Empire. The demise of the Northern Kingdom as an independent nation came about in 721 BC when thousands of Israelites were deported to the far reaches of the Assyrian empire.