be circumspect. take heed.
make no mention, &c.. command often disobeyed, especially in house of Saul. Compare "Baal", 1 Chronicles 8:33; 1 Chronicles 9:39. 1Ch 12:5. 1 Chronicles 14:7; 1 Chronicles 27:28. Hence the importance of the prophecy as to the future in Hosea 2:16; Hosea 2:17.