Reunion of Judah and Israel

¹⁵ The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, ¹⁶ “And you, son of man, take a 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 all the house of Israel, his companions.’ ¹⁷ Then join them together into one stick, so that they may become one in your hand. ¹⁸ When your people say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what you mean by these?’ ¹⁹ say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am going to take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will join the stick of Judah with it and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.”’ ²⁰ The sticks on which you write shall be in your hand before their eyes. ²¹ Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am going to take the children of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will ^[a]gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; ²² and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one ^[b]king will be king over all of them; and they will no longer be two nations, and will no longer be divided into two kingdoms.^{(A) 23} They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will save them from all their transgressions in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them. So they will be My people, and I will be their God.