Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
Ver. 43. Of your god Remphan] Amos 5:26, called Chiun. These are but various names of the same idol; the Hebrews calling it by one name, the Egyptians by another. See Selden de Diis Syris.
ACTS 7:43 evpe,keina Babulw/noj The reading of codex Bezae evpi. @ta. me,#rh Babulw/noj (“into the parts of Babylon”), instead of evpe,keina Babulw/noj (“beyond Babylon”; compare the Septuagint of...
ACTS 7:3-51 In addition to several direct quotations from the Septuagint, Stephen’s speech consists of a series of allusions to and summaries of Israelitish history. In these phrases drawn from the O...
Verse 43. _YE TOOK UP THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH, AND THE STAR OF_ _YOUR GOD REMPHAN, FIGURES WHICH YE MADE TO WORSHIP THEM._] This is a literal translation of the place, as it stands in the _Septuagin...
YEA, YE TOOK UP - That is, you bore, or you carried with you, for purposes of idolatrous worship. THE TABERNACLE - This word properly means a “tent”; but it is also applied to the small tent or house...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Address of Stephen (Acts 7:1)._ 2. The Martyrdom of Stephen (Acts 7:54). This is the largest chapter in this book and concludes the first section. Stephen is the chosen instrumen...
MOSES. Stephen describes the growth of the people, the change of ruler and his oppression, as in Exodus 1. ACTS 7:20. FAIR UNTO GOD (_mg._): from Exodus 2:2; Philo and Josephus speak of the beauty o...
STEPHEN'S DEFENCE (Acts 7:1-7) When Oliver Cromwell was outlining the education he thought necessary for his son Richard, he said, "I would have him know a little history." It was to the lesson of hi...
"It was this man who said to the sons of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet from among your brothers, like me.' It was this Moses who was in the gathering of the people in the wilderness, with the a...
YEA, YE. Ye even. TABERNACLE. Greek. _skene,_ tent. REMPHAN. See notes on Amos 5:25, from which this quotation is taken. It follows the Septuagint very closely. App-107. FIGURES. Greek. _tupos._ See...
_Yea, ye took up_, &c. Read, AND _ye took up_. The conjunction is the ordinary copulative, and the thought is continuous, "Your hearts were after your idols, and ye took up their images," more truly t...
Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
Omit ὑμῶν before ῬΕΦΆΝ with BD. _Vulg_. has vestri.’ 43. ΚΑῚ�. Render, _and ye took up_. The conjunction is the ordinary copulative, and the thought is continuous, ‘your hearts were after your idols,...
_THE JEWISH NATION AND THE LAND OF EGYPT ACTS 7:9-43:_ The patriarchs sold Joseph into Egypt. Envy caused Joseph's brothers to sell him into Egypt as a slave. God was with Joseph and gave him favor wi...
ΆΝΕΛΆΒΕΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΝΑΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G353) подбирать, брать, ΆΣΤΡΟΝ (G798) _асс. sing._ звезда, созвездие. Возможно, упоминание об ассирийском или египетском обычае поклонения планете Сатурн как...
THEN GOD TURNED,— See Romans 1:21. Psalms 81:11. There were two sorts of idolatry; namely, the worshipping the true God by idol mediators, and terminating their worship upon false Gods. Israel began w...
c. Stephen's defence. Acts 7:1-53. Acts 7:1 And the high priest said, Are these things so? Acts 7:2 And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken: The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham,...
See notes on verse 41...
Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon. YEA (RATHER, 'AND' - [ Kai (G2532 )]) YE...
41 Idolatry is, etymologically, the offering of divine service to that which can be perceived by the senses. In this way, all objects of worship, even if they are supposed to be representations of the...
7:43 Yea (b-1) Quoted from the LXX. 'Yea' here has the force of 'Nay, but.'...
YE TOOK UP] viz. to carry in a religious procession, or, to carry from one halting-place to another. THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH] a profane imitation of the tabernacle of Jehovah. Moloch (Molech, or Milc...
DEFENCE AND MARTYRDOM OF STEPHEN 1-53. Speech of Stephen. There is every reason to believe that this speech was really delivered by St. Stephen, and not composed by St. Luke; for, (1) the speech does...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 7 STEPHEN’S SPEECH, PART 1: ABRAHAM’S *FAITH IN GOD, 7:1-8 V1 The *high priest asked Stephen, ‘Is this true?’ V2 Stephen replied, ‘Listen, brot...
YE TOOK UP THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH. — The verb implies the up-lifting of the tabernacle of Moloch, in the same manner as the ark was borne (Exodus 25:14; 1 Kings 2:26), as a sacred ensign in the marc...
The answer of God to His own question: καί should be explained “ye actually took up” (“yea,” R.V., in Amos 5:26); ἀνελάβετε, “ye took up,” _i.e._, to carry in procession from one halting place to anot...
STEPHEN'S DEFENSE: DISOBEDIENCE IN THE WILDERNESS Acts 7:30-46 The angel who appeared in the bush that burned with fire was the angel of God's presence, who saved the Israelites and bare them and car...
The charge against Stephen was that he had spoken against the Temple and the Law. His reply consisted of a masterly review of the history of the nation from the calling of Abraham to the rejection of...
Israel's Rebellion That very deliverer was the one who foresaw the day God would raise up another prophet like him. Moses faithfully worked with those Jews who had been called out of bondage. Through...
Yea, ye (q) took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon. (q) You took it upon your shoulders an...
And you, that is, your forefathers, took unto you the tabernacle of Moloch. He reproaches the Jews with their idolatry and worship of different false gods, from time to time, notwithstanding God's com...
_“You took up the statue of Moloch and the star of your god Remphan, images which you made, to worship them; and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.”_ Moloch is the Tyrian word and Remphan the Copti...
IDOLATRY IN THE WILDERNESS 40-43. While Moses tarries forty days on the summit of Sinai, complimented as no other man with the very audience of Jehovah, revealing to him the wonderful truth which he w...
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. (31) When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he...
First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
43._You took to you the tabernacle of Moloch. _Some take the copulative for the adversative [particle,] as if he should say, Yea, rather, ye worshipped the idol. It may be resolved also into the conju...
Stephen, [11] as far as we are told, had not known the Lord during His life on earth. Certainly he was not appointed, like the apostles, to be a witness of that life. He was simply the instrument of t...
YEA, YE TOOK UP THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH,.... Sometimes called Molech, and sometimes Milcorn; it was the god of the Ammonites, and the same with Baal: the one signifies king, and the other lord; and w...
_Then God turned_ Upon this, God, being most righteously provoked, turned away from them in anger, and, as in many other instances, punished one sin by letting them fall into another; and at length ga...
MOLOCH-REMPHAN; idol gods. Stephen does not quote the exact words of the prophet, but following the Septuagint, gives the sense, as in verses Acts 7:48-49, and in other places....
YEA, YE TOOK UP THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH AND THE STAR OF YOUR GOD REMPHAN, FIGURES WHICH YE MADE TO WORSHIP THEM; AND I WILL CARRY YOU AWAY BEYOND BABYLON. Stephen here supplements the account of the...
God's rejection of His people:...
The high priest only asks the question, "Are these things so?" Then God provides room for Stephen to speak without interruption for some time. This stands in striking contrast to the way in which the...
_YOU ALSO TOOK UP THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH, AND THE STAR OF YOUR GOD REMPHAN, IMAGES WHICH YOU MADE TO WORSHIP; AND_ _I WILL CARRY YOU AWAY BEYOND BABYLON._ '__ 1. Moloch - A king god of the Ammonite...
And ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And the star of the god Rephan, The figures which ye made to worship them: And. will carry you away beyond Babylon. 'TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH'-The idolatry which s...
42-50 Stephen upbraids the Jews with the idolatry of their fathers, to which God gave them up as a punishment for their early forsaking him. It was no dishonour, but an honour to God, that the tabern...
TOOK UP THE TABERNACLE, on their shoulders, as they did the ark. OF MOLOCH; the idol of the children of Ammon, which the Israelites were especially forbidden to worship, LEVITICUS 18:21, LEVITICUS 20:...
Acts 7:43 also G2532 up G353 (G5627) tabernacle G4633 Moloch G3434 And G2532 star G798 your G5216 god...
FROM ABRAHAM TO THE PROPHET LIKE MOSES - REPLY TO THE CHARGE OF BLASPHEMY AGAINST GOD AND MOSES (7:2-43). The only way Stephen had of replying to charges of blasphemy when he had no supporting witness...
‘But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, “Did you offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices, Forty years in the wilderness, O house...
_Third Division of Stephens Speech._ Acts 7:37-53. _Moses and the Prophets._ Moses is again the central figure of the history, but now he stands forward as the great deliverer of the people. Stephen h...
Acts 7:43. YEA, YE TOOK UP THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH. This Tabernacle was a small portable tent which sheltered the image of the idol; this they carried about with them from one place of encampment to...
THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH (την σκηνην του Μολοχ). Or tent of Moloch which they took up after each halt instead of the tabernacle of Jehovah. Moloch was the god of the Amorites to whom children were...
Acts 6; Acts 7 Stephen. From the history of Stephen we learn: I. That fidelity to truth provokes antagonism; holiness and sin are mutually repellent; love and selfishness are the opposites of each o...
Acts 7:14. Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, and were carried over...
CONTENTS: Address of Stephen before the council. Stephen martyred. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Stephen, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Pharaoh, Moses, Pharaoh's daughter, Aaron, Solomon, Sau...
The scope and design of St. Stephen's defence before the council will be better understood, if it be properly analyzed. The rulers construed his defence to import, that the glory of their temple shoul...
BUT OUR ANCESTORS REFUSED TO OBEY HIM. These verses sum up the disobedience of Israel. Stephen shows that the rejection of Jesus has roots deep in their own past. Compare Exodus 16:3; Exodus 17:4; Exo...
_Then said the high priest, Are these things so?_ THE HIGH PRIEST AND HIS QUESTION This functionary was probably Theophilus, son-in-law of Caiaphas. The ex-officio president of the council called for...
_In which time Moses was born._ MOSES, A MAN OF GOD AND A MAN OF THE PEOPLE I. From the people, according to flesh and blood. II. Above the people, according to spirit and character. III. For the...
_To whom our fathers would not obey._ THE SIN OF ISRAEL I. Its manifold nature. 1. Disobedience (Acts 7:39). There is hardly a phase of Jewish history in which this sin does not appear. It was manif...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 7:42 Stephen continues his description of Israel’s idolatry during their occupation of the Promised Land, when they worshiped stars and planets (THE HOST OF HEAVEN). To establish thi...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 7:1 Stephen’s defense is the longest speech in Acts 1:1. It is a selective summary of OT history that turned the charges on his accusers: _they_ were the ones disobeying God because...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 7:18. ANOTHER KING WHICH KNEW NOT JOSEPH.—This was Aahmes, the first monarch of the eighteenth dynasty, “a prince of great force of character, brave, active, energetic, libera...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 7:1. The high priest’s question, ARE THESE THINGS SO? analogous to that put to Christ (Matthew 26:62), was equivalent to a modern “Guilty or not guilty?” Acts 7:2. Concerning...
EXPOSITION ACTS 7:1 _And the high priest said _for then _said the high priest, _A.V. The high priest spoke as president of the Sanhedrim (see Acts 9:1. Acts 9:1 and...
Let's turn tonight to Acts chapter 7. In the early church when a dispute arose among the Grecians--that is, those Jews of the Grecian culture. They were actually Jews, but they had followed the Grecia...
2 Kings 17:16; 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11; 2 Kings 21:6; Amos 5:27;
Tabernacle of Moloch. The portable tent - temple of the God, to be carried in procession. Moloch was an Ammonite idol to whom children were sacrificed. According to Rabbinical tradition, his image was...
Ye took up — Probably not long after the golden calf: but secretly; else Moses would have mentioned it. The shrine — A small, portable chapel, in which was the image of their god. Moloch was the plane...