Amos 5:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

ye have borne. borne aloft. Figure of speech Hysteresis. App-6.

tabernacle. booth. Hebrew. sikkuth.

Chiun. The Egyptian or Greek equivalent was Remphan (Septuagint Raiphan; another spelling preserved in the Septuagint and in Acts 7:43). Proper names frequently differ in spelling: e.g. Ethiopia is the Hebrew Kush; Egypt is Mizrain; Mesopotamia and Syria is 'Aram, or 'Aram naharaim,. c.

the star of your god: or, your star-god.

Amos 5:26

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