KJV 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.
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Amos 5:26
But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
WEB World English Bible
You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
ASV American Standard Version
Yea, ye have borne the tabernacle of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And ye bare Succoth your king, and Chiun your images, The star of your god, that ye made for yourselves.
Surrounding context — Amos 5
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 sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name [is] The God of hosts.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וּנְשָׂאתֶ֗םH5375 · na.sato lift: raiseאֵ֚תH853 · et[Obj.]סִכּ֣וּתH5522 · sik.kutSikkuthמַלְכְּכֶ֔םH4428 · me.lekhkingוְאֵ֖תH853 · et[Obj.]כִּיּ֣וּןH3594 · kiy.yunKiyyunצַלְמֵיכֶ֑םH6754 · tse.lemimageכּוֹכַב֙H3556 · ko.khavstarאֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔םH430 · e.lo.himGodאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichעֲשִׂיתֶ֖םH6213 · a.sahto make: doלָכֶֽם׃H9036 · khemyou
Cross-references
2 Kings 23:12-13And the altars that [were] on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake [them] down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.Leviticus 20:2-5Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever [he be] of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth [any] of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.1 Kings 11:33Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do [that which is] right in mine eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my judgments, as [did] David his father.Leviticus 18:21And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the fire] to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD.
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