Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 10:9

9 O Israel thou hast sinned from the dayes of Gibeah : there they stood : the battel in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them .

You of the Ten Tribes with such consent have sin'd that you seem to do it as one man.

Ever since the dayes so we, but as Rivet observes, it will bear a comparative thus, thou hast sinned above or more than. The Ten Tribes were greater sinners than those Gibeonites, so the Prophet compareth the sins of the present Age, and that past.

Vid. Iudges 19. where the story is set down at large. See also Hab. 5.8. l[illegible: 1 letter]t. [illegible: 1 letter]. the place described.

In that day a and War some stood, who were a seed for raising up the Tribe; so I refer this passage to the Six Hundred Men which fled to the Rock Rimmon.

That fatal Battle did not reach them; but now Israel shall be more severely punisht; for who escape the Sword, shall be carryed Captives, and they shall be no more a people, or Kingdom, or else thus; Israel hath sin'd more than the Gibeonites, I will therefore punish them more than the Gibeonites: They stood once or twice, but Isra[illegible: 1 letter]l now shall be ever beaten, and put to flight; in that War Israel had heart to rally, and after two defeats, were victors in the third encounter; but it shall not be so now, a War shall overtake them now, not such to Israel as was that against the Gibeonites, for in that they had at last the better, but in this they shall be totally ruin'd.

Marginal references: chap. 9.9.