The scholarly camps assign the joining of the two sticks/trees in Ezekiel 37 to the realm of the mystical and miraculous. After all, that's some pretty strange stuff. Or so it seems.
All I have to do, is join the two letters that look like forked tree branches (sticks) - the ayin (ע) and the final tzaddi(k) (ץ) - into one word and Voila! It's the word etz (עץ), the tree/stick.
Joined together as one word in the [writing] hand. It's the simple meaning.
It's so simple that a small child would catch on using refrigerator magnets.
Eze 37:19. Say to them, Thus says the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions, and will put them with him, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand:
Seriously, the stuff that just sits there...
That’s pretty cool , thanks.