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25 ‘House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness?(A) 26 But you have taken up[a] Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god,[b] images you have made for yourselves.(B) 27 So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.’(C) The Lord, the God of Armies, is his name.(D) He has spoken.

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  1. 5:26 Or you will lift up
  2. 5:26 LXX reads taken up the tent of Molech and the star of your god Rephan; Ac 7:43

25 “Did(A) you offer Me sacrifices and offerings
In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26 You also carried [a]Sikkuth[b] (B)your king
And Chiun, your idols,
The star of your gods,
Which you made for yourselves.
27 Therefore I will send you into captivity (C)beyond Damascus,”
Says the Lord, (D)whose name is the God of hosts.

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  1. Amos 5:26 LXX, Vg. tabernacle of Moloch
  2. Amos 5:26 A pagan deity