Hosea 3:1b

"...Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine." Now, I want you to go back to Jeremiah 44. You'll see what I'm talking about. I might come back here again even later, before we get through Hosea. But Jeremiah 44 and let's use verse 19, because I'm going to use some of the other verses later on. Now, this again is the response of idolatrous Israel.

Jeremiah 44:19a

"And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, (Now, that's the female goddess, usually Astarte.) and poured out drink-offerings unto her, did we make her (What?) cakes..." Now, the better translation for flagons of wine would have been grape cakes. In other words, they actually took a grape-flavored cake and offered it on their altars to this female goddess. So, here's where we get the comparison of Scripture, "did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink-offerings unto her,..."

All right, back to Hosea once again, chapter 3. These Israelites -- now you've got to remember