JEWISH VIRTUAL LIBRARY: David's conquest of Jerusalem on the border with Benjamin shifted Judea's center further north. During the reigns of David and Solomon [10th c. BCE] the tribe of Judah absorbed the ancestral lands of Benjamin (to the north of Jerusalem), Dan (to the west) and Simeon (to the south).

Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.