There are popular legends that the Old Testament prophet, Jeremiah, is buried in a Loughcrew, Ireland tomb^[1.1], and that the Celtic peoples who settled in the Irish and British Isles are descendants of the ancient Hebrews, and some even claim the ancient Tuatha Dé Danaan from Irish lore is actually the ancient Hebrew Tribe of Dan. I first heard of these legends decades ago when I started having interest in Irish culture, and in that time I also saw teaching from the church that backed-up the claims.

The legends say the Celtic people descend from ancient Jews that were exiled by the Assyrians – from the so-called Ten Lost Tribes of Israel after God took down the northern kingdom of Israel (2 Kings 17:1-6). The legends also say Jeremiah took the daughters of King Hezekiah of Judah (the southern kingdom of Israel) to Egypt and then to Ireland after Jerusalem and southern kingdom of Israel fell completely to King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon, which was over 130 years after the northern kingdom fell.

Depending on the legend, Jeremiah married off the king’s daughters (one to an Irish king and one to an English king) or one daughter (to the High King of Ireland). Jeremiah also supposedly brought the ark of the covenant and stone pillow or pillar that Jacob, a forefather of the Jews, set as a memorial stone at Bethel (Genesis 28:18). This pillow is supposedly the Stone of Destiny (Lia Fáil) that is used in coronations for Ireland (at the Hill of Tara), Scotland, and Britain. And from this legendary ancient Jewish heritage in the kings of Ireland and Britain, the monarchs of the isles claim to be descended from the ancient Jewish bloodline of the Biblical King David.

In the years since I heard of these things, though, I never evaluated them and set them aside. It was only recently that I felt compelled to evaluate the legends and church teachings that back them up. First, I made an evaluation of the teachings and spiritual guidance that some ministers say came directly from God about the Lost Tribes. Being an elder minister who spent a great deal of my years evaluating church doctrine as being from God or not...

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