O Israel, thou hast (k) sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they (l) stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not (m) overtake them.
(k) In those days you were as wicked as the Gibeonites, as God there partly declared: for your zeal could not be good in executing God's judgments, seeing your own deeds were as wicked as theirs.
(l) That is, to fight, or, the Israelites remained in that stubbornness from that time.
(m) The Israelites were not moved by the example of the Gibeonites to cease from their sins.