A common misinterpretation links the 'star of your god Remphan' to the modern Star of David or contemporary Jewish symbols, fueling antisemitic claims that Judaism is inherently idolatrous, ignoring the historical context of ancient Israel's apostasy with Canaanite and Assyrian gods as condemned in Amos; others dismiss it as mere history without applying its warning against any form of syncretism or star worship in Christian practices, missing Stephen's point that religious leaders repeat ancestral rebellion by rejecting Jesus as the fulfillment of prophecy.
Acts 7:43
King James Version (1769)
43 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.
In Stephen's defense before the Sanhedrin, this passage quotes Amos 5:26-27 to expose Israel's persistent idolatry, where they carried idols of Moloch and Remphan—pagan deities symbolized by stars—despite God's deliverance from Egypt, illustrating their unfaithfulness that provoked divine judgment and exile beyond Babylon, emphasizing the consequences of rejecting God's prophets and covenants for false worship.