Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 37:17
And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
Join them: some would have this done miraculously, but I do not think God bade the prophet work a miracle; were it so, God would rather have said, I will make them one, for he can do miracles. It was enough if glued together, or but held in his hand, so that in his hand they were one.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And join them one to another into one stick,…. Clap the sticks, planks, boards, or tables, to one another; glue them together, or set them so close to one another, that they may seem as one stick, plank, board, or table:
and they shall become one in thine hand; they shall look as if they were one. R. Joseph Kimchi, the father of David, thinks they really became one, by means of a miracle wrought; but there is no need to suppose this; it is enough that they appeared to be so.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Eze 37:17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
Ver. 17. And join them one to another into one stick. ] See on Eze 37:16 . Man and wife are as these two branches in the prophet’s hand, enclosed in one bark; and so closing together that they make but one branch.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
hand. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read “hands” (plural)
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Eze 37:22-24, Isa 11:13, Jer 50:4, Hos 1:11, Zep 3:9
Reciprocal: Eze 37:19 – Behold Amo 3:1 – against
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 37:17. There is an erroneous doctrine in the world pertaining to the so-called lost 10 tribes.” It is maintained that the 10 tribes who went into captivity under the Assyrians were lost and that only the 2 tribes, Judah and Benjamin, were able to return to Palestine. There is not the slightest foundation for such a notion. On the other hand there is much evidence of the existence of the 12 tribes, and the present verse with the context is a positive denial of the mentioned false notion. Here are 2 sticks that are expressly named for the 2 groups of Israel, the 2-tribe and the 10-tribe kingdoms. It is also stipulated that both sticks are to be joined in such a way as to form one stick. If this means that the 10 tribes were lost then also the 2 tribes were, which nobody believes. It is true that in the second or spiritual application there is to be but one tribe (that of Christ who was a descendant of Judah according to the flesh), but that is as true of the 2-tribe kingdom as it is of the other. More on this union of the 2 sticks further on In the chapter.