Acts 7:43 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Yea, ye. Ye even.

tabernacle. Greek. skene, tent.

Remphan. See notes on Amos 5:25-27, from which this quotation is taken. It follows the Septuagint very closely. App-107.

figures. Greek. tupos. See note on John 20:25 (print). Romans 5:14.

worship. Greek. proskuneo. App-137.

carry... away. Greek. metoikizo, as in Acts 7:4.

beyond. Greek. epekeina. Only here.

Babylon. Amos says "Damascus". See note there. The stages of captivity were: Syrian, to Damascus; Assyrian, beyond Damascus to Mesopotamia; Babylonian, to Babylon and beyond, and now they were to be carried to the uttermost parts of the earth.

Acts 7:43

43 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.