Hosea 2:13

"I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me,’ and I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field shall eat them."

Key Reflection

In this passage, God symbolically describes the destruction of Israel's false security and prosperity, represented by their vines and fig trees. The imagery suggests that what they relied on for comfort and provision will be taken away, leaving behind a desolate landscape where wild animals will roam.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, or Baals -When men leave the one true God, they make to themselves many idols. They act, as if they could make up a god piece-meal out of the many attributes of the One God, and create their Creator. His power of production becomes one God; His power of destroying, another; His providence, a third; and so on, down to the very least acts. So they had many Baals or Lords; a “Baal-berithJudges 8:33, Lord of covenants,” who was to guard the sanctity of oaths; “Baal-zebub2 Kings 1:2, Lord of flies,” who was to keep off the plague of flies, and “Baal-Peor”Numbers 25:3, who presided over sin.

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