"Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn't overtake them in Gibeah.
"There they stood ..." This carries the meaning that the evil conduct in view here did not change.  Israel continued in it; even the war that followed and resulted in the near-extermination of the tribe of Benjamin did not even touch the real problem, the punishment of which God Himself would bring about in the forthcoming destruction of the whole kingdom. Well, what was the gross sin that lay at the very root of Israel's debauchery and apostasy from God?  See under verse 10.  As Given noted, "The words here meant that Israel, since the days of Gibeah, persevered in the same sin, or a like sin of the Gibeahites."[18]