Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 37:18-20
“And when the children of your people speak to you saying, ‘Will you not show what you mean by these?’, you say to 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, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand.’ And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.” The sight of the two sticks ‘made one’ in... read more
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 37:15-17
The Two Sticks and The Uniting Of Israel. ‘The word of Yahweh came again to me saying, “And you, son of man, take for yourself 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’. And join them for yourself, one to another, into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.” ’ The wording on the sticks would seem to confirm that... read more