🔥WEB · Ezekiel 37:16
What does Ezekiel 37:16 mean?
"“You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, ‘For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions.’ Then take another stick, and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions.’"
— Ezekiel 37:16 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
You will know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it,” says Yahweh.’”
Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
“You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, ‘For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions.’ Then take another stick, and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions.’
Then join them for yourself to one another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.
“When the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean by these?’
tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand.
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