Study it in the app“And you took up the tent of Molech and the star of the god Rephan, the images that you made to worship them. And I will deport you beyond Babylon.’”
Andκαὶyou took upἀνελάβετεthe tentτὴν σκηνὴνof Molechτοῦ Μολὸχandκαὶthe starτὸ ἄστρονof the godτοῦ θεοῦRephan,Ῥαιφάνthe imagesτοὺς τύπουςthatοὓςyou madeἐποιήσατεto worshipπροσκυνεῖνthem.αὐτοῖςAndκαὶI will deportμετοικιῶyouὑμᾶςbeyondἐπέκειναBabylon.’Βαβυλῶνος
take up
To lift something to carry it, or take someone aboard to go with him.
Where else “anelabete” appearstent
A portable shelter of cloth or skins, or a hut of branches.
Where else “skēnēn” appearsMolech
Molech, a god of the Ammonites.
Where else “Moloch” appearsstar
Star.
Where else “astron” appearsgod
A god of other peoples.
Where else “theou” appearsRephan
Rephan, the name of a star god in the Greek text of Amos 5:26.
Where else “Rhaiphan” appearsimage
A figure made to be worshiped.
Where else “typous” appearsmake
To bring something into being: to make or create it.
Where else “epoiēsate” appearsworship
To give honor and devotion to God, or other gods.
Where else “proskynein” appearsdeport
To carry a people captive far from their land.
Where else “metoikiō” appearsbeyond
Beyond.
Where else “epekeina” appearsBabylon
See it on the mapWhere else “Babylōnos” appearsThe names Molech and Rephan come from the Greek text of Amos; the Hebrew of Amos 5:26 is different. Amos says “beyond Damascus”; Stephen, “beyond Babylon,” where Judah was deported.
Babylon
Today: Babylon ruins, near Hillah, Iraq
A great city on the Euphrates River, in present-day Iraq, about 53 miles (85 km) south of Baghdad.
In its land the languages were confused at Babel (Gen 11:9). Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem and took the people captive there (2 Kgs 25:1-11). Daniel lived there (Dan 1:1-6).
42But God turned away and handed them over to worship the army of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘You did not offer me slaughtered victims and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, did you, house of Israel?
43 · This verse (above)
44Our fathers had the tent of testimony in the wilderness, just as the one who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen.
1. What it says
At the end of his speech, what does Stephen see, and what does he pray while they stone him? (vv. 55-60)
2. What it means
Stephen recounts Israel's story from Abraham. What point does he seem to be making with that survey? (vv. 2-53)
3. How I live it
Stephen asked that this sin not be held against those who harmed him (v. 60). How do you respond when someone wrongs you?
