18 “In those days they will walk, the house of Judah alongside* the house of Israel,+ and together+ they will come out of the land of the north into the land that I gave as a hereditary possession to YOUR* forefathers.+

16 “And as for you, O son of man, take for yourself a stick+ and write upon it, ‘For Judah and for the sons of Israel his partners.’*+ And take another stick and write upon it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Eʹphra·im,+ and all the house of Israel his partners.’+

19 speak to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “Here I am taking the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Eʹphra·im, and the tribes of Israel his partners, and I will put them upon it, that is,* the stick of Judah, and I shall actually make them one stick,+ and they must become one in my hand.”’

11 And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel will certainly be collected together into a unity*+ and will actually set up for themselves one head and go up out of the land,+ because great will be the day of Jezʹre·el.*+