37:18 When your people 1 say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what these things mean?’
37:19 tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to take the branch of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will place them on the stick of Judah, 2 and make them into one stick – they will be one in my hand.’ 3
1 tnHeb “the sons of your people.”
2 tnHeb “I will place them on it, that is, on the stick of Judah.”
3 sn The reunification of Israel and Judah is envisioned as well in Ezek 33:23, 29; Jer 3:18; 23:5-6; Hos 1:11; Amos 9:11.