But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Ver. 26. But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch] That idols were wont to be carried upon men's shoulders we may see, Isaiah 56:7; Bar 6:3; Bar 2:5. That Moloch or Milcom was the abomination of the Ammonites (who called their king as the Israelites called the true God, Isaiah 44:6; Isa 33:22), see 1 Kings 11:5; that the Israelites should do thus in the wilderness (where they had God's tabernacle erected), carrying about them privily some portable chapels or pictures of these idols (as some hold they did, and Josephus seems to say as much), was monstrous wickedness, and the guise of men given up to a reprobate sense, Romans 1:23 2 Thessalonians 2:10,11 .
And Chiun your images] That is, your notable image, the plural for the singular, as often; especially in names of dignity. Jerome here for Chiun hath Remphan; confer Acts 7:43, and the commentators thereon. Aben Ezra thinks that by Chiun is meant the planet Saturn, called Chivan in the Arabic. And other Hebrews by the star of your god (that is, the star which is your god), understand Mercury.