Ezekiel 37:19

Explanation of the symbolical action.

put them with him lit. join them unto it, even unto the stick of Judah. The construction is rather unnatural (for eth, cf. Ezekiel 14:22; Ezekiel 43:17, others would read el).

in mine hand Vulg. reads in his hand(so Ew.), i.e. Judah's, and LXX. actually in the hand of Judah. LXX. either read hishand and interpreted it of Judah, or took the final yof myhand as an abbreviation for Yehudah. On the one hand the united staff or sceptre might be given into the hand of Judah as the ruler of the one kingdom was to be David (Amos 9:11; Hosea 3:5). On the other hand there is no trace in the passage of any preeminence of Judah over Israel of the north.