Hos 4:13 | TNotes | STEP | 4:13 Many Canaanite religious rites were practiced on the mountaintops and hills . On these pagan “high places,” sacred trees were usually used in fertility worship (1 Kgs 14:23 ; Jer 2:20 ). • Israelite daughters and brides also committed sexual acts in the worship of Baal; they were possibly forced to do so by their fathers and husbands.

b1 Kgs 14:23►

cJer 2:20►

‏ Hosea 4:13

4:13 ^a Many Canaanite religious rites were practiced on the mountaintops and hills. On these pagan “high places,” sacred trees were usually used in fertility worship (1 Kgs 14:23 ^b; Jer 2:20 ^c).

• Israelite daughters and brides also committed sexual acts in the worship of Baal; they were possibly forced to do so by their fathers and husbands.