For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and
oil,
&c.] This is a reason, not of her resolution to return to her
first husband, but to go after lovers, and of her ascribing these
things to them, ( Hosea 2:5 ) , and why the
Lord would behave towards her as he determined to do, ( Hosea 2:6 Hosea 2:7 ) , this
ignorance was wilful and affected, and therefore blameable; she
might have known, but she would not; she did not set her mind to
know; she did not consider who gave her these things, nor behave
as if she knew, as Jarchi: or she did not own and acknowledge God
to be the author and giver of them, as she should have done;
which was ingratitude rather than ignorance, and is a heinous
sin, and to be resented; since all good things, temporal and
spiritual, as daily bread, all the necessaries of life, signified
by these things, so the word, and ordinances, and spiritual
gifts, which they may be emblems of, come from God, and should be
acknowledged; but the Jews, as in the times of Isaiah, did not
know him, and acknowledge his benefits, ( Isaiah 1:2 Isaiah 1:3 ) , so, in
the times of Christ, they did not know him to be the God of
Israel, God over all, blessed for ever; from whom, and for whose
sake, who was to be, and was born of them, they enjoyed the
privileges they did, ( John 1:10 John 1:11 ) ( Romans 9:4 Romans 9:5 ) . And
multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for
Baal;
the relative "which" may refer to all that goes before; and the
sense be, that these gifts of God, and which should have been
owned as such, and employed in his service, and to his glory;
some were made use of in meat and drink offerings to Baal; and
others in decking themselves to appear in his worship to his
honour; or in ornamenting the idol therewith, or in making it
thereof, so the Targum and Syriac version: and all this may be
said to be done, when these things are spent in the service of
other lords than the Lord himself; when they are abused to sinful
purposes, and consumed on the lusts of men, to gratify their
sensuality, pride, and vanity, which the Jews did.