Acts 7:43
“Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Mo,.... Sometimes called Molech, and sometimes Milcorn; it was the god of the…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Yea, ye took up - That is, you bore, or you carried with you, for purposes of idolatrous worship. The tabernacle - This…
Adam ClarkeMethodist theologian, 1762–1832
Ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them - This is a…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Acts 7:42-50
Two things we have in these verses: -
I. Stephen upbraids them with the idolatry of their fathers, which God gave them…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
Yea, ye took up, &c. Read, And ye took up. The conjunction is the ordinary copulative, and the thought is continuous,…
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