[2:58] And when We said, 'Enter this city, and eat freely therein wherever you will, and enter it at the gate prostrating, and say, 'exoneration', and We shall forgive you your transgressions and We shall give more to those who are virtuous'.
The Children of Israel persisted in neglecting that which they were commanded to do, to the point where they were entrusted with speech to preserve but they altered it, and they were commanded [to take] a position of prostration upon entering [the city] but they changed it. They exposed themselves to the arrows of the Unseen and then were not able to withstand the injury of their strikes (al-iṣābat bi-qarʿihā). They were exposed to unexpected punishments and could not hold up to the blows of their impact (ṣadamāt waqʿihā).