Hos 2:8 | JFB | STEP | 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 ( ). Baal was the Ph nician sun-god: answering to the female Astarte, the moon-goddess. The name of the idol is found in the Ph nician Hannibal, Hasdrubal. Israel borrowed it from the Tyrians.

Hosea 2:8

8. she did not know that I—not the idols, as she thought: the "lovers" alluded to in Ho 2:5.

which they prepared for Baal—that is, of which they made images of Baal, or at least the plate covering of them (Ho 8:4). Baal was the Ph nician sun-god: answering to the female Astarte, the moon-goddess. The name of the idol is found in the Ph nician Hannibal, Hasdrubal. Israel borrowed it from the Tyrians.