<THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL>>:
 Some commentators understood Ezekiel, according to the simple meaning, to be referring to the Kings of Judah who ruled in his own time just before and during the exile of the people of Judah to Babylon. Incidentally, "Babylon" refers to the whole area of Lower Mesopotamia not just to the Metropolis known as "Babylon".Regarding "princes" and "nobility" in general: Each tribe had princes set up over it. In addition people were elevated to high positions, the kings of Judah and Israel had numerous wives and younger sons, and so on. All of these tended to form a class of aristocracy. The aristocracy is important in Britain. In the USA many of the Presidents and important families also somewhere have aristocratic connections. Maybe these are all the natural leaders of Israel? Maybe their origins go back to the "Princes of Israel"? Many people like to think that they have aristocratic origins, and maybe they do. On the other hand, even in Britain and Europe in the old days, there were always people who came up from below through sheer merit and determination. Some Israelite Tribes were always more egalitarian than others.

In Europe the Saxons were divided into several groups. The Saxons who went to England were different from those who remained on the Continent. I now think that those Saxons who remained on the Continent comprised the ancestors of many of the migrants who later moved from Germany to North America. They were known as the "Old Saxons". The English Saxons had Kings, whereas the "Old Saxons" did not. The "Old Saxons", however, did have a nobility and marriage outside of their own class was forbidden. The Anglo-Saxons also, before moving to England while they were still in Germany, forbade marriage outside of their own people.The Scythian nations before they moved westward were also ruled by kings who intermarried amongst each other and were all related. They were also linked with the rulers of the Parthians, Khazars, and Goths.

Adapted from "Ephraim" by Yair Davidi, chapter six: THE HOUSE OF DAVID AND THE LOST TRIBES
After exhorting the exiled Israelites to leave a traceable path of "dolmens", Jeremiah (chapter 31) continues and describes how Judah (i.e. the Jews) will also be reestablished. A New Covenant will be made between God and the Houses of Israel and Judah. This Covenant will entail a change of nature and will be set in the heart so that the will of God will be instinctively known and performed:

DAVID had numerous sons. Solomon the son of David had 300 wives and 700 concubines and children were borne to him. Most of the kings of the House of David had several children each of whom also would have raised a family of his own. It follows that numerous offspring on the male side must have belonged to the House of David. Descent through the male is what Scripture, strictly speaking, requires in order for the descendants to call themselves by the House of their (male) ancestor even though, in Jewish Law, anyone borne of a Jewish mother is considered Jewish. The House of David reigned in Judah and quite a few families amongst the present day Jews trace themselves back to David. The Jewish Biblical Commentators Rashi (10401105) and Abarbanel (1435-1508), the family of Dayan in Spain and Syria as well as the Maharal (1512-1609) and many other famous Rabbinical scholars were descended from King David. A good number of Jews should be able today to trace themselves back to King David. Apart from descendants of David who are to be found amongst the modern Jews there are others.
Numerous people from the Tribe of Judah were also exiled together with the Lost Ten Tribes. The Sons of David had once been appointed as administrators over all Israel (2-Samuel 8;18). Later members of the House of David had intermarried with leaders of the Northern Kingdom and passed over to live in those areas. In this and other ways descendants of David must have penetrated the ranks of the exiled Israelites. An Aramaic inscription mentions a "House of David" somehow in connection with Dan in the Galilee. There was a Judaean entity known as Yadi in southeast Turkey which was attached to Judah in the south, "he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel" (2-Kings 14;28). The rulers of Yadi had Hebrew names like Gabbar, Bamah, Hayya, Saul, and represented a minor branch of the House of David. The people of Yadi disappeared together with the northern Ten Tribed Kingdom of Israel.
Part of the Lost Ten Tribes became known as the Sakae or Scythians. The Sacae-Scythians once had an independent kingdom named "Sakastan" in eastern Iran. The ruling dynasty of Sakastan believed itself descended from King Solomon the son of David25. In Iberia (Georgia in the Caucasus in southern Russia), which also belonged to the Scythians there was too, a dynasty (related to the Arsacid Kings of Parthia) that traced itself back to David26 as well as to a mythical "AnglTork". The ruling houses of the SakaeScythians in Sakastan and Scythia appear to have been interrelated and had familial connections with the monarchs of the Guti (Goths) and Parthians and they with each other27. It follows that these too at least in part may well have been descended from David28. From these monarchic and aristocratic lines came the early kings of Scandinavia, of the Franks, and of the AngloSaxons.Enthusiasts in the past have adduced all kinds of genealogical permutations in order to prove that the reigning house of Britain is descended from an eastern princess named Tea Tephi (presumed daughter of Zedekiah, king of Judah of the House of David) who married an Irish king, whose descendants moved to Scotland and from there they eventually inherited the English Throne. It may not be necessary to go back so far in such an involved way to make the same point, and anyway the male line is what counts. Another fount of the Davidic line penetrated West European nobility via France! There was once a semi-autonomous Principality in Narbonne (southern France) described by Arthur J. Zuckerman (A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, 768-900, New York, 1972). It was ruled by a Jewish Prince of the House of David whose offspring intermarried with the aristocracy and Royal Line of France and these with that of Normandy, Scotland, and England. Amongst the Welsh, Scottish, English, and other groups in Europe there were families who believed they descended from King David of Judah.It therefore follows, that (theoretically at least) present-day descendants of David may be extremely numerous. Compare this possibility
with the following verse:

David was promised that the Rulership over Israel (or at least part of it) would come from him:

Literally speaking, the promises to David and to the Levites do not necessarily mean that they will always have rulers and ministers over the Houses of Israel. Rather, the Biblical promises may be understood to state that descendants of David and Levi will always be available to fulfill their ancestral functions whenever the Promised Messianic Order shall be instituted or whenever the Children of Israel are worthy.
Even so, it may be that many of the Rulers over the exiled Israelites and those who ministered to them in Britain, America, and elsewhere are (and were) descended from the Houses of David and Levi.

Returning to Ezekiel, chapter 19:

The Parable is of a mother-lioness representing Israel when it was united under King Solomon. The Kingdom divided into two represented by two young lions who misbehaved. The first lion was taken away to Egypt. This represents the Lost Ten Tribes who were taken away mainly to Assyria but also to Egypt. An exile of a portion of the Ten Tribes to "Egypt" is hinted at several times in Scripture. More work needs to be done on this issue. In addition, in Hebrew "Egypt" is "Mitsrayim". The term "Mitsrayim" usually refers to "Egypt" but not always so. It could also mean an area to the north including "Scythia" in the southern regions of what was once known as the USSR. The Lost Ten Tribes from areas of "Assyria", i.e. the Assyrian Empire, did move to Scythia, which could also have been known as "Mitsrayim". In archaeological terms the Assyrians referred to Egypt as "Mutsri" but there was also at least one other place in the north that was also referred to by that name.

"Israel" was once exceedingly well-off but because of her sins she is punished. This may be intended for the End Times and warning us to repent lest some great calamity come upon us all.