[14]. Joshua 21:41
[15]. Acts 28:22
[16]. Ezek. 34:14
[17]. Jer. 16:15; Deut. 33:13-16; Gen. 49:22-26.
[18]. The work is too vast, too arduous, for any one people to accomplish, particularly a people who are a mere handful among earth's teeming millions. God, not man, is doing this work, and He is not limited in his choice of instruments to his own covenant people. All men, all nations, knowingly or unknowingly, are playing into his hands.
[19]. The fact that Arctic explorers have found no such people at the North Pole—where some theorists have persisted in placing them—does not prove that the "Ten Tribes" have lost their identity. It was tradition, not revelation, that located them at the North Pole. "The north country," "The land of the north," these are the scriptural designations of their unknown abode. All the rest is inference. Those tribes could still be intact, and yet much of their blood be found among the northern nations. Some of the pilgrims might easily have mixed with the people encountered by them while journeying toward their ultimate destination; and that Ephraim did so mix, Hosea the Prophet (7:8) declares.
[20]. D. & C. 133:26, 27.
[21]. Ib. 133:29.
[22]. Ib. vv. 30,32.
[23]. Isa. 2:3.