or CHEVAN, in Hebrew antiquity. We meet with this word in the prophet Amos, cited in the Acts of the Apostles. St Luke reads the passage thus: "Ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the altar of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them." The import of the Hebrew is as follows: "Ye have borne the tabernacle of your kings, and the pedestal (the chium) of your images, the star of your gods, which ye made to yourselves." The Septuagint in all probability read Reopham or Revan, instead of Chiun or Chevan, and took the pedestal for a god.

Some say that the Septuagint, who made their translation in Egypt, changed the word Chiun into that of Remphan, because they had the same signification. M. Bafnage, in his book entitled Jewish Antiquities, after having discoursed a good deal upon Chion, or Remphan, concludes that Moloch was the sun, and Chion, Chiun, or Remphan, the moon.