Charles Ellicott Commentary Hosea 10:9

"O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood; the battle against the children of iniquity doth not overtake them in Gibeah." — Hosea 10:9 (ASV)

O Israel ... Gibeah.— You began your obscene transgressions long before the disruption of the kingdom of Rehoboam, even at Gibeah. Gibeah is emblematic of gross and cruel sensuality, in allusion to Judges 19:20, just as Sodom is used for unnatural vice.

There they stood. — Or rather, remained sinning in the same manner. The rest of the verse should be rendered: Shall there not overtake them in Gibeah (used mystically) the war made against the wicked? (Compare Judges 20). But Dr. Pusey and others take it categorically, implying that although the exterminating war against the men of Gibeah did not overtake them, and has not yet, it will now, and soon. But the former interpretation is to be preferred.