Recent History - The British created the country of Jordan on the Eastern Bank of the Jordan River - to keep it away from th Jews who were promised it in the Palestine Mandate after WWI.

 

Ancient History - that part of Israel was conquerred after the Midianite War - but tribes there

were exiled about 140 years before the area of Judea was emptied of Jew by the Babylonians.

 

Rabbi A Theory - the first exile happened but it also paved the way and eased 

the way of our people who were exiled to the same area - Babylon. Iraqi Jews lived there until 1950 or so!

 

Unfortunately most of the tribes from the first exile were lost for centuries -

 and only the last 50 years or so we are finding remnants!  All over the Far East!

 

With instirpretation from Rabbi Neriya and Rabbi Moshe Sofer the Chatam Sofer I infor us all:

The first exile of ten ttribes may have been because they wanted to settle the East Side of the Jordan-

and

They made a little light of the Almighty's promise to us of the Western side of the Jordan to the 

"Sea" - and the Nachal Mitzrayim".

 

SO DON"T MAKE LIGHT OF THE MODERN MIRACLES OF ISRAEL! (And read the whole portion)