Bible Strands
Isaiah 9:14
So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet addresses Israel regarding their refusal to return to the LORD after He struck them.
The words — כִּפָּ֥ה (ki.Pah) = palm branch and וְ/אַגְמ֖וֹן ('ag.Mon) = bulrush denote the complete removal of Israel’s head and tail in a single day.
The thread — This judgment motif appears in Isaiah 19:15, where Egypt cannot act as head or tail, and Revelation 18:8, where plagues strike in one day.
Why it lands — The text declares that rejecting the one who strikes you triggers total collapse of both honorable leadership and false prophets, demanding immediate recognition of divine authority.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 19:15 There is nothing Egypt can do—head or tail, palm or reed.
- Revelation 18:8 Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
- 2 Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
- Isaiah 3:2 the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,
- Isaiah 30:13 this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!
- Hosea 1:4 Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.
- Hosea 1:6 Gomer again conceived and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them.
- Hosea 1:9 And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.
- Hosea 4:5 You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—
- Hosea 5:12 So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.