Israel Will No Longer Be Divided

¹⁵ The word of Yahweh came again to me saying, ¹⁶ “Now as for you, son of man, take for yourself ^(A)one stick and write on it, ‘For ^(B)Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For ^(C)Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.’ ¹⁷ Then ^(D)draw them together for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. ¹⁸ And when the sons of your people speak to you saying, ‘Will you not declare to us ^(E)what you mean by these?’ ¹⁹ say to them, ‘Thus says 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.”’ ²⁰ And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes. ²¹ And speak to them, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will ^(F)take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; ²² and I will make them ^(G)one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and ^(H)one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms. ²³ They also will ^(I)no longer defile themselves with their idols or with their detestable things or with any of their transgressions; but ^(J)I will save them from all their ^[a]places of habitation in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.