Acts 7:43 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Acts 7:43

41 ^aAnd they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and ^brejoiced in the works of their own hands.

42 Then ^aGod turned and gave them up to worship ^bthe host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets:
^c‘Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness,
O house of Israel?

43 You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
And the star of your god Remphan,
Images which you made to worship;
And ^aI will carry you away beyond Babylon.’

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44 “Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Moses ^ato make it according to the pattern that he had seen,

45 ^awhich our fathers, having received it in turn, also brought with Joshua into the land possessed by the Gentiles, ^bwhom God drove out before the face of our fathers until the ^cdays of David,

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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Acts 7:43

Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Molech, etc.—Two kinds of idolatry are charged upon the Israelites: that of the golden calf and that of the heavenly bodies; Molech and Remphan being deities, representing apparently the divine powers ascribed to nature, under different aspects.

carry you beyond Babylon—the well-known region of the captivity of Judah; while "Damascus" is used by the prophet (Amos 5:27), whither the ten tribes were carried.

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gave them up—judicially.

as . . . written in the book of the prophets—the twelve minor prophets, reckoned as one: the passage is from Amos 5:25.

have ye offered to me . . . sacrifices?—The answer is, Yes, but as if ye did it not; for "neither did ye offer to Me only, nor always, nor with a perfect and willing heart" [BENGEL].

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 7:43:

Deuteronomy 2:16
Amos 5:25-26
Amos 5:27

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