Acts 7:43

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.’

God’s True Tabernacle

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,

46 ^awho found favor before God and ^basked to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob.

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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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The tabernacle of Moloch (thn skhnhn tou Molox). Or tent of Moloch which they took up after each halt instead of the tabernacle of Jehovah. Moloch was the god of the Amorites to whom children were offered as live sacrifices, an ox-headed image with arms outstretched in which children were placed and hollow underneath so that fire could burn underneath.

The star of the god Rephan (to astron tou qeou Romfa). Spelled also Romphan and Remphan. Supposed to be Coptic for the star Saturn to which the Egyptians, Arabs, and Phoenicians gave worship. But some scholars take the Hebrew Kiyyoon to mean statues and not a proper name at all, "statues of your gods" carried in procession, making "figures" (tupouv) with both "tabernacle" and "star" which they carried in procession.

I will carry (metoikiw). Attic future of metoikisw from metoikizw.

Beyond Babylon (epekeina Babulwnov). The Hebrew and the LXX have "beyond Damascus." An adverbial preposition (ep ekeina with merh understood) used in the old Greek and the LXX with the ablative case and meaning "beyond." Here only in the N.T. in quotation from Amos 5:27.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 7:43:**

Acts 7:44
Romans 5:14
1 Corinthians 10:6
1 Thessalonians 1:7

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