Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
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Gill's Exposition
Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Mo,.... Sometimes called Molech, and sometimes Milcorn; it was the god of the Ammonites, and the same with Baal: the one signifies king, and the other lord; and was,…
Barnes' Notes
Yea, ye took up - That is, you bore, or you carried with you, for purposes of idolatrous worship. The tabernacle - This word properly means a “tent”; but it is also applied to the small tent or house…
Adam Clarke
Ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them - This is a literal translation of the place, as it stands in the Septuagint; but in the…
Two things we have in these verses: -
I. Stephen upbraids them with the idolatry of their fathers, which God gave them up to, as a punishment for their early forsaking him in worshipping the golden…
Cambridge Bible
Yea, ye took up, &c. Read, And ye took up. The conjunction is the ordinary copulative, and the thought is continuous, "Your hearts were after your idols, and ye took up their images," more truly than…
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