As they called them, &c. Or, The more they called them, &c. (comp. Hosea 4:7). Since Israel disobeyed the first call by Moses, prophets were sent to repeat the call, but their preaching only seemed to increase Israel's obstinacy (comp. Isaiah 6:9-10; Jeremiah 7:25-26). What, then, was the good of prophecy? It kept up a church within the nation, and it developed ideas which bore fruit in due time.

unto Baalim, &c. Rather, to the Baalim (see on Hosea 2:13) … to the graven images.

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