Amos 5:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

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 preceding verse spoke of their fathers; the present verse speaks of the Israelites then existing, who were so grievously addicted to idolatry, that they not only worshipped at stated public places the idols set up by public authority, but they carried their gods about with them everywhere.

The tabernacle of your Moloch - Probably a small portable shrine, with an image of their god in it, such as Moloch; and the star or representative of their god Chiun. For an ample exposition of this verse, see the note on Acts 7:42; to which let me add, that from Picart's Religious Ceremonies, vol. 3 p. 199, we find that there was an idol named Choun worshipped among the Peruvians from the remotest antiquity.

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.