Hos 11:2 | HCSB | STEP | The more they called them, the more they departed from Me. They kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols .

Hosea 11:2

2 The more they ^{▼▼Perhaps the prophets} called them, ^{▼▼= Israel
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the more they ^{▼▼= Israel} departed from Me. ^{▼▼LXX; MT reads them}
They kept sacrificing to the ^{▼▼Baal: A fertility god who was the main god of the Canaanite religion and the god of rain and thunderstorms; also the Hebrew word meaning "lord," "master," "owner," or "husband"}Baals ^g
and burning offerings to idols. ^h