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What does Hosea 11:2 mean?
"They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images."
— Hosea 11:2 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.
Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; but they didn’t know that I healed them.
I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.
“They won’t return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to repent.
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