Acts 7:43 “You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god…”

Acts 7:43

You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

World English Bible

You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship, so I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’

American Standard Version

And ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And the star of the god Rephan, The figures which ye made to worship them: And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

Geneva Bible 1599

And ye tooke vp the tabernacle of Moloch, and the starre of your god Remphan, figures, which ye made to worship them: therefore I will carie you away beyond Babylon.

Darby Translation

Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of [your] god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.

Young's Literal Translation

and ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan — the figures that ye made to bow before them, and I will remove your dwelling beyond Babylon.

Bible in Basic English

And you took up the tent of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, images which you made to give worship to them: and I will take you away, farther than Babylon.

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Cross references

“ye took”

Leviticus 20:2–5 2 Kings 17:16–18 2 Kings 21:6 Leviticus 18:21

Leviticus 20:2–5 · BSB

“Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.

2 Kings 17:16–18 · BSB

They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.

2 Kings 21:6 · BSB

He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.

Leviticus 18:21 · BSB

You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

“figures”

Deuteronomy 4:16–18 Exodus 20:4 Exodus 20:5 Deuteronomy 5:8 Deuteronomy 5:9

Deuteronomy 4:16–18 · BSB

that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,

Exodus 20:4 · BSB

You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

Exodus 20:5 · BSB

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Deuteronomy 5:8 · BSB

You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

Deuteronomy 5:9 · BSB

“and I”

2 Kings 18:11 2 Kings 17:6 Amos 5:27

2 Kings 18:11 · BSB

The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 17:6 · BSB

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

Amos 5:27 · BSB

Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.

Also

Amos 5:26–27

Amos 5:26–27 · BSB

You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

42But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

44Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

Read Acts 7