Amos 5:26

Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

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In The King James Version

But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

In Context

25Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?

27And I will send you away as prisoners farther than Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:2Again, say to the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or any other man living in Israel, gives his offspring to Molech, he is certainly to be put to death: he is to be stoned by the people of the land;

2 Kings 23:12And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron.

Matthew Henry on Amos 5:22-27

Hypocritical Services Rejected; Threatenings against Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. 23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. 24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. 25 Have ye offered unto me… Read the whole commentary →

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