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Amos 5:26

But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch, the war-god of the Moabites and Ammonites, and. Chiun, a star-divinity, your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. Even in the wilderness the children of Israel, as Ezekiel also shows, did not quite discard their idolatry, but carried their idol-pictures along with them and thus provoked the Lord,

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Amos 5:26. _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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT YE HAVE BORNE - Literally, “And ye bare the tabernacle of your Moloch” (literally, “your king,” from where the idol Moloch had its name.) He assigns the reason, why he had denied that they sacriri...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 5 The Third Discourse _ 1. The lamentation (Amos 5:1) _ 2. Seek the Lord and ye shall live (Amos 5:4) 3. The wailing (Amos 5:16) 4. The captivity announced ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL'S DELUSIONS. The prophet resumes the subject of Israel's delusions, how she disregards the essential conditions of real welfare. In Amos 5:18 he deals with a peculiar example of this, the conce...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    YE HAVE BORNE. borne aloft. Figure of speech _Hysteresis._ App-6. TABERNACLE. booth. Hebrew. _sikkuth._ CHIUN. The Egyptian or Greek equivalent was Remphan (Septuagint Raiphan; another spelling prese...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _But ye_ SHALL TAKE UP SAKKUTH YOUR KING, _and_ KAIWÂN _your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves;_ AND I WILL _cause you to go into_ EXILE _beyond Damascus, saith_ JEHOVAH] You a...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Do you think to win Jehovah's favour by your religious services? On the contrary, He will have none of them: what He demands is not sacrifice, or even praise, but _justice_; in the wilderness your anc...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _WHAT THE LORD DEMANDS -- AMOS 5:21-27 _ The children of Israel stilled assembled before God to conduct solemn assemblies or religious celebrations. Sadly, God took no delight in their times of worshi...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND CHIUN YOUR IMAGES— _And the image of our idols._ Houbigant; who understands the word כיון _chiun_ to be an appellative, and not a proper name in this place. The LXX for _Chiun_ read Ραιφαν, _Raiph...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HAVE YE OFFERED UNTO ME, &C.— See the note on Deuteronomy 12:8. Jeremiah 7:22. These verses have made some people think that the Israelites, in their forty years' wanderings through the wilderness, co...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCERID RELIGION OF HYPOCRISY TEXT: Amos 5:21-27 21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. 22 Yea, though ye offer me you...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? HAVE YE OFFERED UNTO ME SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS IN THE WILDERNESS FORTY YEARS, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL?...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    5:26 Moloch, (b-9) i.e. Milcom. Others render it 'your King.' Chiun (c-11) Some understand _ Chiun_ as the 'stand of the idol.' The LXX reads, 'star of your god Remphan.' see Acts 7:43 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE THIRD ADDRESS 1-6. A lament, a warning, and an invitation. 7, 10-20. Denunciation of injustice and oppression, with threats of pestilence and judgment. 21-27. A repudiation of their attempt to...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 5 GOD ENCOURAGES ISRAEL’S PEOPLE TO COME BACK TO HIM V1 People in Israel, listen to this song. ‘This funeral song is ab...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    _(_25, 26_)_ Much uncertainty belongs to the interpretation of these verses and their connection in thought. Some commentators would treat Amos 5:25 as a statement, and not a question, the first word...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ נְשָׂאתֶ֗ם אֵ֚ת סִכּ֣וּת מַלְכְּכֶ֔ם וְ אֵ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    2. FOR WORSHIP, JUSTICE Amos 5:1 In the next of these groups of oracles Amos continues his attack on the national ritual, and now contrasts it with the service of God in public life-the relief of the...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A DARK DAY FOR HYPOCRITES Amos 5:16-27 Mighty sins had been committed, and mighty judgments were at hand. The oppression of the poor, Amos 5:11; the erection of elegant dwellings from unrighteous ex...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The third discourse was a description of Jehovah's judgment. This opened with a lamentation for the virgin of Israel, "The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise, she is cast down upon her...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But ye have borne the tabernacle of your (n) Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. (n) That idol which you esteemed as your king, and carried about as you d...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    A tabernacle, &c. All this alludes to the idolatry which they committed, when they were drawn away by the daughters of Moab to the worship of their gods, Numbers xxv. (Challoner) --- They imitated the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    We have here the Lord's threatenings concerning the captivity of the people, and which we know came to pass. Stephen, the first martyr, made a quotation from this scripture. Acts 7:42. But what I part...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    It now follows, _And ye have carried Sicuth your king. _This place, we know, is quoted by Stephen Acts 7:42 : but he followed the Greek version; and the Greek translator, whoever he was, was mistaken...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    After having deplored the ruin of Israel, He contrasts the places of their false worship with Jehovah, the Creator, and exhorts them to come unto Him and live. But Israel put off the thought of the ev...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT YE HAVE BORNE THE TABERNACLE OF YOUR MOLOCH,.... The god of the Ammonites; Amos 1:13; and Jeremiah 7:31; called theirs, because they also worshipped it, and caused their seed to pass through the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. Ver. 26. _But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch_] That idols were w...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _But ye have borne_, or _did bear, the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun_ Your ancestors manifested their want of true devotion toward me, in that they were so prone to practise those idolatries whi...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THE TABERNACLE OF YOUR MOLOCH: Or, Siccuth your king...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 shou...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BUT YE, the idolatrous children of idolatrous fathers, HAVE BORNE, carried along with you in the wilderness, THE TABERNACLE, or little chapel, or shrine, or canopy, in which the image of their idol wa...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 5:26 carried H5375 (H8804) Sikkuth H5522 king H4428 Chiun H3594 idols H6754 star H3556 gods H430 made...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST WOE, CONCERNING THE DAY OF YHWH (AMOS 5:18). A ‘woe' was the opposite of a ‘blessed be you of YHWH'. It was the announcing of troubles and disaster that would come on His people directly fro...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DAY OF DARKNESS IS COMING BECAUSE OF THE FALSITY OF THEIR WORSHIP IN THAT WHILE THEY WORSHIP THEY IGNORE JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS (AMOS 5:21). Amos now emphatically brings out where their error l...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Amos 5:4. _For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:_ And that it just the message of God to professing Christians now: «Seek ye me.» Get away from your mere ce...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: God's lamentation over Israel and captivity foretold. The day of the Lord. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If men will not take a right course to obtain the favor of God, God will take an eff...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Amos 5:2. _The virgin of Israel is fallen._ Babylon, which had never been stormed by a besieging army, is called a virgin. Isaiah 47:1. Thus Israel, whose kingdom had never yet been wholly subdued, is...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 5:25. Have] Lit. _Did ye_, equivalent to denial, some; others, not entire suspension of sacrifice, but mixed with idolatry. From of old they had been recreant to God. Their pres...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 6:14 § 8. _Third address_:_ the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall of Israel_. (Amos 6:1.) He calls her to repentance, while he shows wherein she has declined from the...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation (Amos 5:1), Weeping over the house of Israel now. The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her l...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 11:33; 2 Kings 23:12; 2 Kings 23:13; Leviticus 18:21;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Ye have borne — Ye carried along with you in the wilderness; the shrine, or canopy in which the image was placed. Moloch — The great idol of the Ammonites. Chiun — Another idol....

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