Book of Hosea Chapter 9 Vs. 9

The Lord Will Punish Israel 

They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore, he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. Hos. 9:9

as in the... This means that they were sodomites and protectors of them, as Benjamin in Judges 19-20. Gibeah... (compare 10:9). Israel’s sin is likened to the gross evil of the men of Gibeah. A reference to their heinous rape of the concubine (Jdg. 19:22-25), an infamous and unforgettable crime (Jdg. 19:30).

he will remember... This is speaking of their corruption being as bad, as it had been in the days of Gibeah. There is an account of the terrible thing that happened at Gibeah in the 19th chapter of the book of Judges. It is a very foul blot on Israel's character. Read from verse 10 on, to get the full account. This is terrible that Israel has fallen to this low lifestyle. God must punish them for this evil.

Treachery-they have made it profound in the very house of their God. They have done corruptly, as in the days of Gibeah. Their iniquity is remembered; visitation is made on their sin.

These, then, were the symptoms of the profound political decay which followed on Israel’s immorality. The national spirit and unity of the people had disappeared.

Society-half of it was raw, half of it was baked to a cinder. The nation, broken into fractions, produced no man to lead, no king with the stamp of God upon him. Anarchy prevailed; monarchs were made and murdered. There was no prestige abroad, nothing but contempt among the Gentiles for a people whom they had exhausted. Judgment was inevitable by exile-nay, it had come already in the corruption of the spiritual leaders of the nation.

Hosea now turns to probe a deeper corruption still.

The depth of the people’s sin against God is emphasized by Hosea’s reference to the days of Gibeah (cf. Hos. 10:9). The phrase recalls the events that involved the brutal rape and murder of the Levite’s concubine by some bisexual men of Gibeah (Jdg. 19:1-30). On that occasion it was said, such a thing has never been seen or done, not since the day the Israelites came up out of Egypt (Jdg. 19:30). But Hosea said that black mark on Israel’s history was now rivaled by Israel’s blatant sins against the Lord.