Amos 5:26

1 Kings 11:33; 2 Kings 23:12; 2 Kings 23:13; Leviticus 18:21; Leviticus 20:2-5

Related Commentaries of Amos 5:26

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But ye have borne - Literally, “And ye bare the tabernacle of your Moloch” (literally, “your king,” from where the idol Moloch had its name.) He...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

But ye have borne the tabernacle of your (n) Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. (n) That idol which yo...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Israel's Delusions. The prophet resumes the subject of Israel's delusions, how she disregards the essential conditions of real welfare. In Amos 5:...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

ye have borne . borne aloft. Figure of speech Hysteresis. App-6. tabernacle . booth. Hebrew. sikkuth. Chiun. The Egyptian or Greek equivale...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

It now follows, And ye have carried Sicuth your king. This place, we know, is quoted by Stephen Acts 7:42 : but he followed the Greek vers...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. But ye have borne - The pre...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Have ye offered unto me, &c.— See the note on Deuteronomy 12:8 . Jeremiah 7:22 . These verses have made some people think that the Israelites...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And Chiun your images— And the image of our idols. Houbigant; who understands the word כיון chiun to be an appellative, and not a proper name i...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and off...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Third Address 1-6. A lament, a warning, and an invitation. 7, 10-20 . Denunciation of injustice and oppression, with threats of pestilence a...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

( 25, 26 ) Much uncertainty belongs to the interpretation of these verses and their connection in thought. Some commentators would treat Amos 5:25...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2. FOR WORSHIP, JUSTICE Amos 5:1-27 In the next of these groups of oracles Amos continues his attack on the national ritual, and now contrasts...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Dark Day for Hypocrites Amos 5:16-27 Mighty sins had been committed, and mighty judgments were at hand. The oppression of the poor, Amos 5:1...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The third discourse was a description of Jehovah's judgment. This opened with a lamentation for the virgin of Israel, "The virgin of Israel is fallen...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We have here the Lord's threatenings concerning the captivity of the people, and which we know came to pass. Stephen, the first martyr, made a quotat...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch ,.... The god of the Ammonites; Amos 1:13 ; and Jeremiah 7:31 ; called theirs, because they also...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 bor...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But ye have borne , or did bear, the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun Your ancestors manifested their want of true devotion toward me, in that...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hypocritical Services Rejected; Threatenings against Israel. B. C. 790....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

But ye, the idolatrous children of idolatrous fathers, have borne, carried along with you in the wilderness, the tabernacle, or little chapel,...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The First Woe, Concerning The Day of YHWH ( Amos 5:18-27 ). A ‘woe' was the opposite of a ‘blessed be you of YHWH'. It was the announcing of troub...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Day Of Darkness Is Coming Because Of The Falsity of Their Worship In That While They Worship They Ignore Justice And Righteousness ( Amos 5:21-2...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES . ] Amos 5:25 . Have] Lit. Did ye , equivalent to denial, some; others, not entire suspension of sacrifice, but mixed with idola...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Amos 5:4 . For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: And that it just the message of God to professing Chr...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 5:2 . The virgin of Israel is fallen. Babylon, which had never been stormed by a besieging army, is called a virgin. Isaiah 47:1 . Thus Isra...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Verse 1-ch. 6:14 § 8. Third address : the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall of Israel . ( Amos 6:1-30 .) He calls her t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Woe upon Fools and Hypocrites
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch, the war-god of the Moabites and Ammonites, and. Chiun, a star-divinity, your images, the star of...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ye have borne — Ye carried along with you in the wilderness; the shrine, or canopy in which the image was placed. Moloch — The great idol of the Am...

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

Related Commentaries of Amos 5:26

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Amos 5:26