In the day— "Not for want of light to see thy way; but in the full day-light of divine instruction thou shalt fall: even at the rising of that light, which is for the lighting of every man that cometh into the world." In this day-time, when our Lord himself visited them, the Jews made their last grand false step, and fell.
In the night— In the night of ignorance, which shall close thy day, the prophet shall fall with thee; that is, the order of prophets among thee shall cease.
Thy mother— That is to say, the mother-city, the metropolis. So Capellus, Houbigant, and Archbishop Newcome. But Jerusalem is intended, not Samaria; for Samaria was the metropolis of the kingdom of the ten tribes, not of the whole nation, the children of Israel in general.