Hosea 2:13
Context| NETBible | “I will punish her for the festival days when she burned incense to the Baal idols; 1 she adorned herself with earrings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but 2 she forgot me!” 3 says the Lord. |
| XREF | Ex 32:34; De 6:12; De 8:11-14; De 32:18; Jud 2:11-13; Jud 3:7; Jud 10:6; 1Sa 12:9; 1Ki 16:31,32; 1Ki 18:18-40; 2Ki 1:2; 2Ki 10:28; 2Ki 21:3; Job 8:13; Ps 78:11; Ps 106:13,21; Isa 17:10; Jer 2:23-25; Jer 2:32; Jer 7:9; Jer 11:13; Jer 18:15; Jer 23:2; Eze 22:12; Eze 23:35; Eze 23:40-42; Ho 2:5,7; Ho 9:7,9; Ho 9:10; Ho 11:2; Ho 13:1 |
| NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “the days of the Baals, to whom she burned incense.” The word “festival” is supplied to clarify the referent of “days,” and the word “idols” is supplied in light of the plural “Baals” (cf. NLT “her images of Baal”). 2 tn The vav prefixed to a nonverb (וְאֹתִי, vé’oti) introduces a disjunctive contrastive clause, which is rhetorically powerful. 3 tn The accusative direct object pronoun וְאֹתִי (vé’oti, “me”) is emphatic in the word order of this clause (cf. NIV “but me she forgot”), emphasizing the heinous inappropriateness of Israel’s departure from the |
