Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
As they called them—"they," namely, monitors sent by Me. "Called," in Hosea 11:1, suggests the idea of the many subsequent calls by the prophets.
went from them—turned away in contempt (Jeremiah 2:27).
Baalim—images of Baal, set up in various places.
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