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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 2:8 - 2:8
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she did not know that I - not the idols, as she thought: the “lovers” alluded to in Hos 2:5.
which they prepared for Baal - that is, of which they made images of Baal, or at least the plate covering of them (Hos 8:4). Baal was the Phoenician sun-god: answering to the female Astarte, the moon-goddess. The name of the idol is found in the Phoenician Hannibal, Hasdrubal. Israel borrowed it from the Tyrians.