Hosea 2:8 meaning and explanation

For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold— which they crafted for Baal.

Hosea 2:8, Berean Standard Bible

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In this verse God speaks through Hosea about Israel, pictured as an unfaithful wife. She has credited her grain, new wine, oil, silver and gold to the fertility gods she pursued, not to the LORD who actually gave them.

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