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What does Amos 5:26 mean?

"You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves."

— Amos 5:26 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

23

Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

24

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

25

“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?

26

You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

27

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies.

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