O Israel, thou hast [a]sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they [b]stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not [c]touch them.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:9 In those days wast thou as wicked as the Gibeonites, as God there partly declared: for thy zeal could not be good in executing God’s judgments, seeing thine own deeds were as wicked as theirs.
  2. Hosea 10:9 To wit, to fight, or the Israelites remained in that stubbornness from that time.
  3. Hosea 10:9 The Israelites were not moved by their example to cease from their sins.

“Since the days of Gibeah,(A) you have sinned,(B) Israel,
    and there you have remained.[a]
Will not war again overtake
    the evildoers in Gibeah?

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  1. Hosea 10:9 Or there a stand was taken