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Amos 5:26
Amos 5:26 is verse 26 of Amos chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
LXX You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan
King James Version
But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
World English Bible
You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
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Amos 5:24–27 · Berean Standard Bible
24 But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
25 Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
26 You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
27 Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Leviticus 18:21You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 20:2“Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.
Leviticus 20:3And I will set My face against that man and cut him off from his people, because by giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled My sanctuary and profaned My holy name.
Leviticus 20:4And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech,
Leviticus 20:5then I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.
1 Kings 11:33For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.
2 Kings 23:12He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
2 Kings 23:13The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.