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I will visit; punish, for the prophet threatens them with this visitation, by which it evidently appears to be a visiting in wrath.
Upon her; the kingdom of Israel.
The days; the sins of those days past.
Of Baalim: Baal was the great idol of the ten tribes, the chief of their idols, their lord (as the word signifieth) and patron; here it is plural, Baalim, either to denote the multitude of idols which they worshipped, all called by this one name, or perhaps because of the multitude of his statues or images, and of his altars and temples, erected to Baal in all places of the land.
Burnt incense to them; sacrificed and worshipped, for this one kind of religious observance is put for all the rest.
She decked herself with her earrings and her jewels; to put the greater honour upon the idol, they put on their richest and best attire, or it may be they blindly thought this rich habit would make them the more acceptable to their senseless idol.
And she went after her lovers; decked thus, strumpet like, she went on by her spiritual adultery to provoke me.
And forgat me; and slighted me, if she did at all think of me, adulteress like.