We have no knowledge of the location or condition of that part of the ten tribes who went into the north country.
B. C. 600, a colony left Jerusalem, under one Lehi, to people the western hemisphere. Eleven years after, it was followed by another under the direction of Mulek. Their descendants have scattered over the American continent from Cape Horn to the Arctic Sea.
This branch of the house of Israel may truly be said to be scattered over half the globe. The Book of Mormon, and the monumental ruins they have left on the land, give us all the information we have of them down to the year 1492, A. D., when Christopher Columbus discovered America.
Since that time, their history forms a part of the general history of the continent, which is a record of the fulfilment of many of the prophecies, in the Bible and Book of Mormon, concerning the scattering of Israel.
Bible.
Deut. 28. 37 thou shalt become a proverb and a by-word.
64 Israel to be scattered from one end of the earth even unto the other. Chap. 32. 26.
Psalm 106. 27 to overthrow their seed also among the nations.
Isa. 5. 13 my people have gone into captivity.
10. 3 what will ye do in the day of visitation?