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Hosea 11:2 KJV
Hosea · chapter 11 · verse 2
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.Hosea 11:2 · King James Version
Hosea 11:2 in context
1When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
2As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
3I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
4I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- sacrificedzâbachto slaughter an animalH2076 →
- incenseqâṭarto smokeH6999 →
- calledqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
- BaalimBaʻalBaal, a Phoenician deityH1168 →
- wenthâlakto walkH1980 →
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Here we find, I. God very gracious to Israel. They were a people for whom he had done more than for any people under heaven, and to whom he had given more, which they are here, I will not say upbraided with (for God gives, and upbraids not), but put in mind of, as an aggravation of their sin and an encouragement to…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7