Hosea 10:9 meaning and explanation
Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?
Hosea 10:9, Berean Standard Bible
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Hosea is speaking to the northern kingdom of Israel, and he reaches back to a dark episode in Judges 19 to 21, when the men of Gibeah committed a horrific outrage and civil war followed. The point is not one ancient crime but a pattern: Israel has sinned since those days and has simply stayed there, unchanged.
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