The LORD’s word to join two sticks into one

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Entry: The LORD’s word to join two sticks into one (event-ezk-37-the-two-sticks-made-one)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/event/ezk-37-the-two-sticks-made-one
Current wording: Ezekiel 37:15–28: the LORD’s word comes again to the speaker (“I”), 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, ‘The Lord GOD says: “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. The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.”’ Say to them, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. One king will be king to them all. They will no longer be two nations. They won’t be divided into two kingdoms any more at all. They won’t defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. So they will be my people, and I will be their God. My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances and observe my statutes, and do them. They will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived. They will dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children’s children, forever. David my servant will be their prince forever. Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more. My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people. The nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is among them forever more.”’” The Korean Revised Version closes the words it opens at 37:19 with 너는 곧 이르기를 (then say) by 하셨다 하고 at the end of that verse, and gives 37:20 as a command to the speaker: 너는 그 글 쓴 막대기들을 무리의 목전에서 손에 잡고 (to hold the written sticks in the hand before the people); WEB keeps 37:20 within those words and closes them at its end. The text does not say that the sticks were taken or written on. The Korean Revised Version names at 37:16 the stick of Ephraim before Joseph (에브라임의 막대기 곧 요셉), where WEB reads “For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim”; at 37:22 it reads 한 임금이 모두 다스리게 하리니 (one king will rule them all), where WEB reads “One king will be king to them all”; at 37:25 it reads 그 열조가 (their fathers), where WEB reads “your fathers”, and 왕 (king), where WEB reads “prince”; at 37:26 견고하고 (making them firm), where WEB reads “I will place them”; and at 37:27 처소 (dwelling place), where WEB reads “tent”.
Cited evidence: EZK 37:15–28, engwebp
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