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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Chiun
A star god, likely the planet Saturn, whose image Amos says Israel carried in the wilderness. The Septuagint turned the name into Rephan, and that is the form Stephen quotes in Acts 7:43.
A star god, likely the planet Saturn, whose image Amos says Israel carried in the wilderness. The Septuagint turned the name into Rephan, and that is the form Stephen quotes in Acts 7:43.
Chiun was an astral deity, likely identifying the planet Saturn, whose image the prophet Amos says the Israelites carried and worshipped during the wilderness period (Amos 5:26). The Septuagint rendered the name as Rephan or Remphan, the form Stephen uses when quoting the verse in Acts 7:43. Star worship of this kind was widespread across the ancient Near East, and Assyrian astrological texts record Saturn's association with an underworld deity under a related name.
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- Amos 5:26
