Canaanites such a problem (1:19)? And why, after Jerusalem was conquered, did the Benjaminites allow the Jebusites to remain there (1:21)? Deeper probing of these questions is needed if the real nature of what went wrong is to be understood and appropriate lessons learned from it. This deeper probing happens in the rest of chapter 1, and the full revelation of the underlying causes comes in 2:1–5. In his “Poem in October” the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas spoke of his thirtieth birthday as a turning point