Hosea 2:13

13. The conclusion of this section of the prophecy. All the judgments threatened are the result of Israel’s faithlessness.

I will visit As frequently in the Old Testament, equivalent to punish. Days of [“the”] Baalim Not special religious feast days celebrated in honor of the Baalim, but the feast days enumerated in Hosea 2:11. Nominally the Israelites continued to worship Jehovah; in reality he had been displaced from his pre-eminence and placed on a level with the Canaanitish deities. A worship permeated with Canaanitish elements could not be acceptable to Jehovah; therefore the feast days were not sacred to Jehovah, but to the Baalim, and might properly be called days of the Baalim.

Wherein [“unto which”] she burned incense A.V. is to be preferred; the days on which she burned incense to them. The verb is used in the later period in the narrower sense of burn incense; here, as in Hosea 4:13; Hosea 11:2; Amos 4:5, it means offer sacrifice in general.

Earrings Or, nose ring; since the noun is in the singular, preferably the latter.

Jewels The reference is not to special decorations to attract the paramours, but to the common custom of attiring one’s self in the best garments and decorating one’s self with all kinds of ornaments on holy days. Compare the expression in the Koran, “In the day of ornament,” that is, the festival, and the Arabic saying, “When the feast with its noise is past everyone puts on his own rags again.”

She… forgat me The Baalim alone were in her mind (Hosea 2:8). Had the Israelites thought of Jehovah at all they would have seen the absurdity of attempting to harmonize the worship of Jehovah with that of the Baalim.