The "tabernacle" or "tent" was probably a little portable shrine, such as Demetrius the silversmith and those of his craft made for the little statues of their goddess Diana Acts 19:24. He whom they chose as "their king," was their god. Since they did "carry about the tabernacle of their king," they did not really worship God. "Did ye offer sacrifices unto Me, and ye bare?" that is, seeing that ye bare.
Hammond, on Acts 7:43, have proved.īarnes' Notes on the BibleBut ye have borne - Literally, "And ye bare the tabernacle of your Moloch" (literally, "your king," from where the idol Moloch had its name.) He assigns the reason, why he had denied that they sacririced to God in the wilderness. These images were placed in shrines, here termed סכות, a tabernacle, or tabernacles, and these they used to carry about with them, as Grotius and Dr. Your images - They had images of these supposed deities, that of Moloch representing the sun, and that of Chiun the star Saturn: see Seldon, 2:396. 3, where it is shown that Saturn was called Rephan, or Remphan, by the Egyptians. Rephan or Remphan, according to Vossius, it signifies the moon but Aben Ezra understands it of Saturn, an interpretation which many learned men approve: see particularly Lud. As for the other word, Chiun, rendered by the LXX. Stephen, ( Acts 7:42-43,) to prove that God gave them up to worship the host of heaven, it is probable that by Moloch is meant the sun, which the whole East worshipped in ancient times, called also, as almost all interpreters agree, Baal, Bel, or Belus: Baal, the Lord, (as the word signifies,) and Moloch, the king of heaven, being the same. But ye have borne, or did bear, the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun - Your ancestors manifested their want of true devotion toward me, in that they were so prone to practise those idolatries which they learned in Egypt, or which they saw practised in the countries through which they passed: see Numbers 25:2 Joshua 24:14 Ezekiel 20:7 Ezekiel 20:16 and Ezekiel 23:3 Ezekiel 23:8.
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