3. We have an account of the ten tribes, after their captivity, which accords with the ideas just stated. We receive not the books of the Apocrypha as given by Inspiration; but much credit has been given to historical facts recorded in it; as in the wars of the Maccabees; and other places. In 2 Esdras xiii. 40, and on, we read; "Those are the ten tribes which were carried away prisoners out of their own land, in the time of Osea, the king, whom Salmanezer, the king of Assyria led away captive; and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land.” Here is the planting of them over the Euphrates, in Media. . . . And this seems just such an event as might be expected, had God indeed determined to separate them from the rest of the idolatrous world, and banish them by . themselves, in a land where no man dwelt since the flood. But if these tribes took counsel to go to a land where no man dwelt, as they naturally would do, they. certainly could not have taken counsel to go into Hiodostan, or any of the old and long crowded nations of Asia.