Life of Ahmad — Page 672
JESUS as IN INDIA as 672 Jesus as says: 'I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israil' (Matth: 15:24). And in John 10:16 he says, 'And other sheep I have which are not of this fold-----------they shall hear my voice,' Ahmad as also knew that the house of Israel had been actually dispersed in the olden days. The Bible says: 'The King of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes'. (2 Kings 17:6) Referring to this H. Wheeler Robinson says in his book The History of Israel (Duckworth, London, 1938) on page 136: 'When Sargon deported 27, 290 inhabitants of Samaria in 722 he seems to have scattered them in Northern Messopotamia and Media, doubtless in order to remove the possibilities of any successful rebellion'. We also read in the Historians History of the world , Vol. II, London, 1908, page 115, that: The siege of Samaria had already lasted ten years when Shalmaneser died. It was actually carried on by his successor, who took the town and carried away its inhabitants to Assyria and Media to the number of about 27,000, according to the inscription of Khorsabad. They were gradually absorbed by the populations in the midst of which they had been placed. It should be pointed out that the number given