The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.
This gathering of Judah and Israel unto one head cannot refer to the return from Babylonian captivity, for as Given pointed out, "There went up unto that second house (temple) only Judah and Benjamin."[35]  "That restoration was far too meager in its dimensions to come up to this splendid prophecy,"[36] although of course, such a token restoration serves as a fulfillment in miniature of the far greater thing that has taken place under the glorious reign of the Messiah.