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!(A)[c]

God’s Real Tabernacle

44 “Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.(B) 45 Our ancestors in turn received it and with Joshua brought it in when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers,(C) until the days of David.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:43 Canaanite or Phoenician sky or sun god
  2. Acts 7:43 Perhaps an Assyrian star god—the planet Saturn
  3. Acts 7:43 Am 5:25-27

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