Hosea 2:17
Good News Translation
I will never let her speak the name of Baal again.

New Revised Standard Version
For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more.

Contemporary English Version
I will no longer even let you mention the names of those pagan gods that you called "Master."

New American Bible
I will remove from her mouth the names of the Baals; they shall no longer be mentioned by their name.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and she shall no more remember their name.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and she shall no more remember their name.

I will.

Exodus 23:13 Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of strange gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your mouth.

Joshua 23:7 Lest after that you are come in among the Gentiles, who will remain among you, you should swear by the name of their gods, and serve them, and adore them:

Psalm 16:4 Their infirmities were multiplied: afterwards they made haste. I will not gather together their meetings for bloodofferings: nor will I be mindful of their names by my lips.

Zechariah 13:2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will destroy the names of idols out of the earth, and they shall be remembered no more: and I will take away the false prophets, and the unclean spirit out of the earth.

and they.

Jeremiah 10:11 Thus then shall you say to them: The gods that have not made heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth, and from among those places that are under heaven.

Context
God's Mercy to Israel
16And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord: That she shall call me: My husband, and she shall call me no more Baali. 17And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and she shall no more remember their name.18And in that day I will make a covenant with them, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air, and with the creeping things of the earth: and I will destroy the bow, and the sword, and war out of the land: and I will make them sleep secure.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:13
Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of strange gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your mouth.

Joshua 23:7
Lest after that you are come in among the Gentiles, who will remain among you, you should swear by the name of their gods, and serve them, and adore them:

Psalm 16:4
Their infirmities were multiplied: afterwards they made haste. I will not gather together their meetings for bloodofferings: nor will I be mindful of their names by my lips.

Zechariah 13:2
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will destroy the names of idols out of the earth, and they shall be remembered no more: and I will take away the false prophets, and the unclean spirit out of the earth.

Hosea 2:16
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