Ezekiel 37:16–24

¹⁶“And you, son of man, take for yourself ^aone stick and write on it, ‘For ^bJudah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For ^cJoseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.’

¹⁷“Then ^ajoin them for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

¹⁸“When the sons of your people speak to you saying, ‘Will you not declare to us ^awhat you mean by these?’

¹⁹say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “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“The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.

²¹“Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will ^atake 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;

²²and I will make them ^aone nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and ^bone 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 will ^ano longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but ^bI will deliver them from all their ¹dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

The Davidic Kingdom

²⁴“My servant ^aDavid will be king over them, and they will all have ^bone shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.