Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 2:13

13 And I will visit upon her the dayes of Baalim , wherein she burnt incense to them , and she decked her self with her ear-rings and her jewels ; and she went after her lovers , and forgat me, saith the LORD.

Punish▪ for the Prophe[illegible: 1 letter] [illegible: 1 letter]hreatens them with this visitation, by which it evidently appears to be a visiting in wrath.

The Kingdom of [illegible: 1 word].

The sins of those dayes past.

Baal was the great [illegible: 1 word] of the Ten Tribes, the chief of their Idols, their Lord▪ (as the word signifieth,) and patron; here it is plural Baalim either to denote the multitude of Idols which they worshipt, all call'd by this one Name, or perhaps because of the multitude of his Statues or Images, and of his Altars and Temples erected to Baal in all places of the Land.

Sacrificed, and Worshipt, for this one kind of Religious Observance is put for all the rest,

To put the greater honour upon the Idol, they put on their richest and best attire, or it may be they blindly thought this rich habit would make them the more acceptable to their sensless Idol.

Deck't thus, Strumpet like, she went on by her spiritual Adultery to provoke me,

And slighted me, if she did at all think of me, Adulteress like.