So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.
"At daybreak shall the king of Israel be utterly cut off ..." This simply means that the king would be slain like most of the people.  The military ruin of the nation would be complete and final.  Of special interest is the phrase "at daybreak," which might be a doubtful rendition. The scholars have injected several meanings into the phrase as follows: