Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 2:8
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8. she did not know that I —not the idols, as she thought: the "lovers" alluded to in :- . which they prepared for Baal —that is, of which they made images of Baal, or at least the plate covering of them ( Hosea 8:4 ). Baal was the Phoelignician sun-god: answering to the female Astarte, the moon-goddess. The name of the idol is found in the Phoelignician Hannibal, Hasdrubal. Israel borrowed it from the Tyrians. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-9" class="com-number"
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