Acts 7:42-43

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42} Then God turned away^(A) and gave them up to worship^(B) the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

House of Israel, did you bring Me offerings and sacrifices
40 years in the wilderness?

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43}

No, you took up the tent of Moloch^(a)
and the star of your god Rephan,^(b)
the images that you made to worship.
So I will deport you beyond Babylon!^(C)^(c)

Footnotes:

a. Acts 7:43: Canaanite or Phoenician sky or sun god

b. Acts 7:43: Perhaps an Assyrian star god—the planet Saturn

c. Acts 7:43: Am 5:25-27

Cross references:

A. Acts 7:42: Joshua 24:20; Isaiah 63:10

B. Acts 7:42: Deuteronomy 4:19; Jeremiah 19:13

C. Acts 7:42: Amos 5:25-27; Acts 7:36