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You took up the tent of Moloch, The star of your god Rephan, The figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away beyond Babylon.`
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The Gravity of Israel's Idols
Stephen accuses Israel of worshipping horrific idols. Commentators explain that 'Moloch' was a god to whom children were sacrificed, often in a heated brass statue. The 'tabernacle' was a portable shrine for this idol. 'Rephan' is identified by scholars as the planet Saturn, worshipped as a star-god. This wasn't a minor straying but a deep dive into paganism.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Yea, you took up. That is, you bore, or you carried with you, for purposes of idolatrous worship.
The tabernacle.…
The tabernacle of Moloch (την σκηνην του Μολοχ). Or tent of Moloch which they took up after each halt instead of the tabernacle of…
19th Century
Anglican
You took up the tabernacle of Moloch.—The verb implies the uplifting of the tabernacle of Moloch, in the same manner as t…
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Baptist
There was still idolatry in their hearts, and Moses was rejected by them. God grant that we may not be idolaters, and so reject the Prophet, like M…
16th Century
Protestant
Stephen will declare here that the Jews never made an end of sinning, but that they wandered farther in their perverse errors, so that their first …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yea, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch Sometimes called Molech, and sometimes Milcorn; it was the god of the Ammo…
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Stephen upbraids the Jews with the idolatry of their fathers, to which God gave them up as a punishment for their early forsaking him.
It wa…
