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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 37:19 - 37:19
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The union effected at the restoration from Babylon embraced but comparatively few of Israel; a future complete fulfillment must therefore be looked for.
stick of Joseph ... in the hand of Ephraim - Ephraim, of the descendants of Joseph, had exercised the rule among the ten tribes: that rule, symbolized by the “stick,” was now to be withdrawn from him, and to be made one with the other, Judah’s rule, in God’s hand.
them - the “stick of Joseph,” would strictly require “it”; but Ezekiel expresses the sense, namely, the ten tribes who were subject to it.
with him - that is, Judah; or “it,” that is, the stick of Judah.