Amos 5:26. Ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
1. For a description of Moloch, see note on Leviticus 18:21 (#163).
2. The majority of those interpreters who suppose Chiun to be a proper name take it to mean the planet Saturn. The Septuagint has ‘Pαιφάν, which afterward became corrupted to ‘Pευφάν, and is so used by Stephen in Acts 7:43. Some have assumed that ‘Pαιφάν, was an Egyptian name of the planet Saturn, but others have denied this. Some commentators suppose that the word is not a proper name, but merely signifies a statue, an idol, or a pedestal on which an idol might be placed.