Amos 5:26

But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?

27And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:2Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: If any man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers, that dwell in Israel, give of his seed to the idol Moloch, dying let him die: the people of the land shall stone him.

2 Kings 23:12And the altars that were upon the top of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses had made in the two courts of the temple of the Lord, the king broke down: and he ran from thence, and cast the ashes of them into the torrent Cedron.

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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