2As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
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And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. …
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Here we find, I. God very gracious to Israel. They were a people for whom he had done more than for any people under heaven, and to whom he had given more, which they are here, I will not say upbraided with (for God gives, and upbraids not), but put in mind of, as an aggravation of their sin and an encouragement to repentance. 1. He had a kindness for them when they were young (Hos. 11:1): When Is…
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