Hos 9:1 | TNotes | STEP | 9:1 do not rejoice: This is probably a reference to the Festival of Shelters, when Israel celebrated the final harvest of the year. This festival was ordained by God (Deut 16:13-15 ), but the Israelites had turned it into a wild pagan festival, behaving as other nations did. • hiring yourselves out like prostitutes (literally you have loved a prostitute’s pay ): The Israelites ignorantly believed that their grain and wine were payment for their worship of the Canaanite fertility god.

bDeut 16:13-15►

‏ Hosea 9:1

9:1 ^a do not rejoice: This is probably a reference to the Festival of Shelters, when Israel celebrated the final harvest of the year. This festival was ordained by God (Deut 16:13-15 ^b), but the Israelites had turned it into a wild pagan festival, behaving as other nations did.

• hiring yourselves out like prostitutes (literally you have loved a prostitute’s pay): The Israelites ignorantly believed that their grain and wine were payment for their worship of the Canaanite fertility god.