Amos 5:26 “You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the i…”

Amos 5:26

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

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.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

But you haue borne Siccuth your King, and Chiun your images, and the starre of your gods, which ye made to your selues.

Darby Translation

Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of your Moloch, and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye had made to yourselves;

Young's Literal Translation

And ye bare Succoth your king, and Chiun your images, The star of your god, that ye made for yourselves.

Bible in Basic English

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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Cross references

“the tabernacle of your Moloch”

Leviticus 20:2–5 1 Kings 11:33 Leviticus 18:21 2 Kings 23:12 2 Kings 23:13

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.

1 Kings 11:33 · BSB

For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor k…

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.

2 Kings 23:12 · BSB

He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them th…

2 Kings 23:13 · BSB

The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of t…

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

In context

25Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

27Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.

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