Amos 5:26
Good News Translation
But now, because you have worshiped images of Sakkuth, your king god, and of Kaiwan, your star god, you will have to carry those images

New Revised Standard Version
You shall take up Sakkuth your king, and Kaiwan your star-god, your images, which you made for yourselves;

Contemporary English Version
Now you will have to carry the two idols you made--Sakkuth, the one you call king, and Kaiwan, the one you built in the shape of a star.

New American Bible
Yet you will carry away Sukuth, your king, and Kaiwan, your star-image, your gods that you have made for yourselves,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.

the tabernacle of your Moloch.

Leviticus 18:21 Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor defile the name of thy God. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 20:2-5 Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: If any man of the children Israel, or of the strangers that dwell in Israel, give of his seed to the idol Moloch, dying let him die. The people of the land shall stone him. . . .

1 Kings 11:33 Because he hath forsaken me, and hath adored Astarthe, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Chamos, the god of Moab, and Moloch, the god of the children of Ammon: and hath not walked in my ways, to do justice before me, and to keep my precepts, and judgments, as did David, his father.

2 Kings 23:12,13 And the altars that were upon the top of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses had made in the two courts of the temple of the Lord, the king broke down: and he ran from thence, and cast the ashes of them into the torrent Cedron. . . .

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Context
The Day of the LORD
25Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel? 26But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.27And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.…
Cross References
Acts 7:43
And you took unto you the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Rempham, figures which you made to adore them. And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

Amos 5:27
And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.

Amos 5:25
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