Amos 5:26 · KJV
“But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. {the tabernacle...: or, Siccuth your king}”
— Amos 5:26
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name {is} The God of hosts.
Amos 5 — Context
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. {run: Heb. roll}
25Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. {the tabernacle...: or, Siccuth your king}
27Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name {is} The God of hosts.
Cross References
2 Kings 23:12-13
And the altars that {were} on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake {them} down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. {brake...: or, ran from thence}
Leviticus 20:2-5
Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever {he be} of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth {any} of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
1 Kings 11:33
Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do {that which is} right in mine eyes, and {to keep} my statutes and my judgments, as {did} David his father.
Leviticus 18:21
And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through {the fire} to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I {am} the LORD. {Molech: Gr. Moloch}