Amos 5:26
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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.

Lexicon
You have lifted up
וּנְשָׂאתֶ֗ם (ū·nə·śā·ṯem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5375: To lift, carry, take

Sakkuth
סִכּ֣וּת (sik·kūṯ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5522: A foreign god

your king
מַלְכְּכֶ֔ם (mal·kə·ḵem)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4432: Molech -- a heathen god to whom Israelites sacrificed children

and Kaiwan
כִּיּ֣וּן (kî·yūn)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3594: A statue, idol, for, some heathen deity

your star
כּוֹכַב֙ (kō·w·ḵaḇ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3556: A star, a prince

god,
אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔ם (’ĕ·lō·hê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

the idols
צַלְמֵיכֶ֑ם (ṣal·mê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6754: A phantom, illusion, resemblance, a representative figure, an idol

you made
עֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם (‘ă·śî·ṯem)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

for yourselves.
לָכֶֽם׃ (lā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew


Additional Translations
You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.But you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.

Yea, ye have borne the tabernacle of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Raephan, the images of them which ye made for yourselves.

Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of your Moloch, and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye had made to yourselves;

Yea, ye have borne Siccuth your king and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

And ye bare Succoth your king, and Chiun your images, The star of your god, that ye made for yourselves.
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