Amos 5 · Verse 26

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.
Amos 5:26, King James Version

Amos 5:26 in other translations

BSBYou have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
WEBYou also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
ASVYea, ye have borne the tabernacle of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
YLTAnd ye bare Succoth your king, and Chiun your images, The star of your god, that ye made for yourselves.
DARBYYea, ye took up the tabernacle of your Moloch, and Chiun your images, the star of yourgod, which ye had made to yourselves;
BBETruly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
WebsterBut ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

What does Amos 5:26 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Amos 5:25-26

25-26. Have ye offered? &c.--Yes: ye have. "But (all the time with strange inconsistency) ye have borne (aloft in solemn pomp) the tabernacle (that is, the portable shrine, or model tabernacle: small enough not to be detected by Moses; compare Ac 19:24) of your Molech" (that idol is "your" god; I am not, though ye go through the form of presenting offerings to Me). The question, "Have ye," is not a denial (for they…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 26 But ye have borne - The preceding verse spoke of their fathers; the present verse speaks of the Israelites then existing, who were so grievously addicted to idolatry, that they not only worshipped at stated public places the idols set up by public authority, but they carried their gods about with them everywhere. The tabernacle of your Moloch - Probably a small portable shrine, with an image of their god in it, such as Moloch; and the star or representative of their god Chiun. For an ample exposition of this verse, see the note on Act 7:42; to which let me add, that from Picart's Religious Ceremonies, vol. 3 p. 199, we find that there was an idol named Choun worshipped among the Peruvians from the remotest antiquity.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Amos 5:18-27

Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this should be so great a desolation, that nobody could gain by it. The day of the Lord will be a dark, dismal, gloomy day to all impenitent sinners. When God makes a day dark, all the world cannot make it light. Those who are not…

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Amos 5:26 in the original Hebrew

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וּנְשָׂאתֶ֗םu.ne.sa.Temand you will lift upH5375
אֵ֚ת'et<obj.>H853
סִכּ֣וּתsi.KutSikkuthH5522
מַלְכְּכֶ֔םmal.ke.Khemking yourH4428
וְאֵ֖תve.'Etand <obj.>H853
כִּיּ֣וּןki.YunKiyyunH3594
צַלְמֵיכֶ֑םtzal.mei.Khemimages yourH6754
כּוֹכַב֙ko.Khav[the] star ofH3556
אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔ם'e.Lo.hei.Khemgods yourH430
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhichH834
עֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם'a.si.Temyou madeH6213
לָכֶֽם\׃la.Khemfor yourselves

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Cross references for Amos 5:26

  • Leviticus 20:2-5

    Again, 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. And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not: Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

  • 2 Kings 23:12-13

    And 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. And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

  • 1 Kings 11:33

    Because 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 18:21

    And 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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the tabernacle of your Moloch. or, Siccuth your king.
Le 18:21; 20:2-5; 1Ki 11:33; 2Ki 23:12,13
Milcom.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Amos 5:25

    Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

  • 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.

  • Amos 5:27

    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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Amos 5:26 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Mas llevabais el tabernáculo de vuestro Moloch y Chiún, ídolos vuestros, la estrella de vuestros dioses que os hicisteis.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Mais vous avez porté le tabernacle de votre Moloc, et le Kiun de vos images, l’étoile de votre dieu, que vous vous êtes fait;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ja, ihr habt die Hütte eures Königs und das Gestell eurer Götzenbilder getragen, das Sternbild eures Gottes, die ihr euch gemacht hattet.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		et portastis tabernaculum Moloch vestro, et imaginem idolorum vestrorum, sidus dei vestri, quæ fecistis vobis.