Hosea 11:2

‘The more they called them,

The more they went from them,

They sacrificed to the Baalim,

And burned incense to graven images.'

But it is made clear that Israel in fact never came out of Egypt in their hearts, for the more that ‘they' (the prophets) called them the more they deserted what they had been taught, and sacrificed to Baalim and graven images. It was made clear by this that idolatry and the ways of thinking of Egypt still possessed their hearts. In their hearts they had never left Egypt. ‘Burned incense to graven images.' As well as the offering of sacrifices, the burning of incense in their many sanctuaries was a regular feature of Egyptian/Canaanite worship, and some of these incense altars have been discovered in what was Canaan.