Perhaps some will say, since _Media_ and _Persia_, are near to _Babylon_, why did they not return to _Jerusalem_ with the two Tribes? I answer, because so few of the two neighbouring Tribes did return from thence to _Jerusalem_, for that they were wel seated in _Babylon_; or else because they heard the Prophets say, that they must not look for any redemption but that which was to be at the end of dayes. How then can we thinke that they who were more remote, and also had learnt the same things of the Prophets, should leave their place, perhaps to suffer new miseries, and calamities? Besides, we doe not read that _Cyrus_ gave leave to any to return, but only to the two Tribes of _Juda_ and _Benjamin_. And also it is probable (as some Authors affirme) that they could not goe up from thence, because they had continually Wars with the neighbour people. _SECT._ 23. Hitherto we have shewed that the ten Tribes are in divers places, as in the _West-Indies_, in _Sina_; in the confines of _Tartary_, beyond the river _Sabbathion_, and _Euphrates_, in _Media_, in the Kingdome of the _Habyssins_; of all which the Prophet _Isaiah_ is to be understood, in _Isa._ 11.11. _It shall come to passe in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left from_ Assyria, _from_ Egypt, _from_ Pathros, _from_ Ethiopia, _from_ Elam, _from_ Sinear, _from_ Hamath, _and from the Islands of the Sea_. From whence you may gather, that it is meant of those places where the ten Tribes dwell. _Syria_ and _Ægypt_ shall be the two places of their generall meeting; as more fully hereafter. _Pathros_, is not _Pelusium_, nor _Petra_, but _Parthia_, neare to the Caspian Sea, where I thinke, with many others, the Sabbaticall river is. Although there is a _Pathros_ in _Ægypt_, as the learned _Samuel Bochardus_ saith in his holy Geography. _Chus_, according to common opinion, is _Æthiopia_, as is proved out of _Jer._ 13.23. and in this place of _Jeremy_ are meant the _Israelites_, who live in the Country of the _Abyssins_. _Elam_, is a Province in _Persia_, as it appeares in _Dan._ 8.2. where are desert places, in which, perhaps, the remnant of the ten Tribes is. _Shinar_, is a Province about _Babylon_, as in _Gen._ 10.10. where _Babel_ is said to be in _Shinar_; and _Dan._ 1.2. it is said, that _Nebuchadnezzar_ carryed the holy Vessels to the Land of _Shinar_. _Hamath_, there are many Hamaths mentioned in the Scripture, many understand it of _Antioch_; but because Geographers reckon up 12 places named _Antioch_, therefore we can affirme nothing for certain; but I thinke, that that is meant, which is placed in _Sythia_. The seventy Interpreters by _Hamath_, understand the Sun, from _Hamath_ the Sun; and they translate it, From the rising of the Sun; and I thinke it is no ill translation; for hereby all the _Israelites_ who are in greater _Asia_, _India_, and _Sina_, may be understood.