O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah—There must have been great sin on both sides, of Israel as well as Benjamin, when Israel p…

O Israel ... Gibeah.— You began your obscene transgressions long before the disruption of the kingdom of Rehoboam, even at Gibeah.…

He here reproaches Israel for having been long hardened in their sins, and not for being recently corrupted. This is the substance. He had said in …

O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah
This has no respect, as the Targum, and others, to Gibeah of Saul,…

Because God does not desire the death and ruin of sinners, He therefore, in mercy, desires their chastisement. The children of iniquity still remai…