Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Hosea 2:8
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Hosea2:8
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 Phoenician sun-god: answering to the female Astarte, the moon-goddess. The name of the idol is found in the Phoenician Hannibal, Hasdrubal. Israel borrowed it from the Tyrians.
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