Naphtali

Naphtali
/naf"teuh luy'/, n.
1. the sixth son of Jacob and Bilhah. Gen. 30:7,8.
2. one of the 12 tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Naphtali.

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▪ Hebrew tribe
      one of the 12 tribes that in biblical times constituted the people of Israel who later became the Jewish people. The tribe was named after the younger of two sons born to Jacob and Bilhah, a maidservant of Jacob's second wife, Rachel. After Joshua led the people of Israel into the Promised Land, he divided the new territory among the 12 tribes, assigning a region northwest of the Sea of Galilee to the tribe of Naphtali.

      After the death of King Solomon (922 BC), the 10 northern tribes established an independent Kingdom of Israel. In 734 BC the Naphtalites were conquered by the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III, whose armies in 721 BC gained control over the entire northern kingdom. Israelites who were deported into slavery and those who remained behind were gradually assimilated by other peoples. The tribe of Naphtali thus lost its identity and became known in Jewish legend as one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.

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