Book of Hosea Chapter 2 Vs. 8

 Israel's Unfaithfulness Punished

For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. Hos. 2:8

For she did... She did not know that her husband had provided her all the things which her lovers had provided, and more. She was to be punished and taught a lesson not to play the harlot again (Hos. 2:9-10).

prepared for Baal... Baal (the Phoenician sun-god) worship, already present during the time of the judges (Jud. 2:17; 3:3; 8:33), became established in Israel when King Ahab married Jezebel, who attempted to obliterate Israelite worship of the true God (1Kgs. Chapter 19). Offering to Baal actually came from God’s dowry to Israel (Eze. 16:10-14).

It was God that had provided her with all her needs. He had loved Israel so much that He gave her far beyond her need. He had showered her with silver and gold as well. Since we are looking at this spiritually, we must remember that "silver" symbolizes redemption and "gold" symbolizes God.

God had redeemed her and provided all of her needs. She repaid Him by giving that gold to the false god Baal. She had great wealth but did not appreciate the fact God had showered the wealth upon her. She took God for granted. The saddest thing was that she used the gold and silver to worship a false god.

Israel deprived of the Lord’s blessings

Israel’s guilt was established as the basis for her punishment. She had failed to acknowledge the Lord as the Source of her produce and wealth. Instead, she used silver and gold to manufacture Baal idols (cf. Hos. 8:4; 13:2), for it was this Canaanite deity to whom she attributed her agricultural (grain… new wine and oil) and economic prosperity (Hos. 2:5, 2:12-13).

Baal was the Canaanite god who supposedly controlled storms and was responsible for both agricultural and human fertility. The Canaanite “Legend of Keret” associated Baal’s rain with agricultural blessing in the form of grain, bread, wine, and oil (cf. J.C.L. Gibson, Canaanite Myths and Legends. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1978, p. 98). By looking to Baal for these things Israel broke the first of the Ten Commandments (cf. Exo. 20:3; Deut. 5:7), rejecting one of the main principles of the Mosaic legislation. Moses taught that the Lord provided grain, wine, and oil (Deut. 7:13; 11:14). Each Israelite, when presenting his first fruits in the harvest festival, was to recite the following words in the presence of the priest, “I bring the first-fruits of the soil that You, O Lord, have given me” (Deut. 26:10).