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Selected Verse: Isaiah 9:14 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Isa 9:14 |
King James |
Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
head and tail--proverbial for the highest and lowest (Deu 28:13, Deu 28:44).
branch and rush--another image for the same thought (Isa 19:15). The branch is elevated on the top of the tree: the rush is coarse and low. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Will cut off head and tail - This is a proverbial expression, which is explained in the following verse; see also Deu 28:13-14. The head is often used to denote those in honor and authority. The tail is an expression applicable to the lower ranks, and would commonly indicate more than simply the common people. It would imply contempt; a state of great abjectness and meanness.
Branch and rush - This is also a proverbial expression, meaning the highest and lowest; see the note at Isa 19:15. The word here translated branch, means properly the bough or top of the palm tree. The palm grew to a great height before it gave out any branches, and hence, the image is a beautiful one to denote those high in office and authority. The word rush means the coarse, long-jointed reed, that grows in marshes - an apt emblem of the base and worthless classes of society. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Head - High and low. Branch - The goodly branches of tall trees, the mighty and noble. Rush - The bulrush, the weakest and meanest persons. One day - All together, one as well as another. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| In one day - Thirteen MSS. of Kennicott and De Rossi read ביום beyond in a day; and another has a rasure in the place of the letter ב beth. |
15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.