43 But it was the tent of Mo′loch and the star of the god Re′phan that YOU took up, the figures which YOU made to worship them. Consequently I will deport YOU beyond Babylon.’
2007-01-02 15:13:05 · 4 answers · asked by gary d 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
SINCE I ASKED THIS I FOUND A CROSS TO AMOS 5:2626 And YOU will certainly carry Sak′kuth YOUR king and Kai′wan, YOUR images, the star of YOUR god, whom YOU made for yourselves. 27 And I will cause YOU to go into exile beyond Damascus,’ he whose name is Jehovah the God of armies has said.
2007-01-02 15:21:20 · update #1
"Rephan" was almost certainly another name for the pagan Egyptian god Saturn.
2007-01-03 06:18:13 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Remphan. Stephen warns his accusers that God may abandon Israel if the light of the gospel is rejected, Just as He once sent idolatrous Israel beyond Babylon.
rephan, A pagan god. NIV translates the Hebrew word Pedstal though the ftn offers the proper name Kaiwan. The Egyptain repa and the Assyrian Kaiwan both refer to the planet Saturn.
Sikkuth and Chiun are star deities of the Assyrian and Babylonian religions usually identified with the planet Saturn.
2007-01-02 23:18:24 · answer #2 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the correct spelling in this verse is Remphan = meaning "the shrunken (as lifeless).
It is the name of an idol worshipped secretly by the Israelites in the wilderness wanderings which they took up after the golden calf: but secretly without Moses' knowledge.
The Israelites as well as people of this day are very disobedient people, that's why God continues to go around and around with the world -- people to this day are still worshipping various idols and trying to get it right with God.
The full meaning of the idols in this passage is: Moloch was the planet Mars, which they worshipped under a human shape. Remphan, that is, Saturn, they represented this idol by a star.
2007-01-03 01:13:36 · answer #3 · answered by S C 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if the Bible tells us that or not, My search doesn't come up with anything. Ill check a cross reference and get back to you.
Edit: The cross references go back to gods named Sikkuth and Kiyyun, but they are not used anywhere else in the Bible. They were false gods. Amos 5:26 seems to indicate that they made them for themselves.
2007-01-02 23:18:53 · answer #4 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋