Ezekiel 8:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. ”

Ezekiel 8:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The seer is now brought back to the same gate as in Ezekiel 8:3 . It is not certain that this verse refers to any special act of Tammuz-worship. The month in which the vision was seen, the sixth...
Ezekiel 8:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which [was] toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for (o) Tammuz. (o) The Jews write, that this was a prophet of the i...
Ezekiel 8:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Worship of Tammuz. Then follows a scene in which the women lament for Tammuz a clear allusion to a Babylonian cult. Tammuz (pp. 631 f.), impersonation of the fructifying, gladdening sun, god of...
Ezekiel 8:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Tammuz. With Art. An idol personifying vegetable and animal life, worshipped in Phoenicia and Babylonia.
Ezekiel 8:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. There sat women weeping for Tammuz - This was Adonis, as...
Ezekiel 8:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz— The prophet here refers to the Phoenician or Syrian superstition. Tammuz was an idol of Chaldee extraction, as is plain from his name; which also is us...
Ezekiel 8:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the L...
Ezekiel 8:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

§ 3. A Vision of Jerusalem's Sin and Doom (Ezekiel 8-11) Date, August-September, 591 b.c. A year and two months after his call to be a prophet, Ezekiel was visited in his house by the elders of t...
Ezekiel 8:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Women weeping for Tammuz. — The prophet is now taken to the north gate of the outer enclosure of the Temple courts, and there sees a new and exceedingly corrupt form of idolatry. Tammuz is nowhere...
Ezekiel 8:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE Ezekiel 8:1-18 ; Ezekiel 9:1-11 ; Ezekiel 10:1-22 ; Ezekiel 11:1-25 ONE of the most instructive phases of religious belief among the Israelites of the se...
Ezekiel 8:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

We now come to the last prophecy dealing with the results of reprobation. It consists of a long and detailed description of the cause and process of judgment. Its first movement came to the prophet a...
Ezekiel 8:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What are there more views, more of the same like abominations? Yes! here are the women of Israel introduced as well as the men, in their open and daring impiety. The former transgressions were in the...
Ezekiel 8:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house, which [was] towards the north ,.... By "the Lord's house" no doubt is meant the temple, which the Targum here calls the house of the s...
Ezekiel 8:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which [was] toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. Ver. 14. And, behold, there sat women. ] These were pr...
Ezekiel 8:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then he brought me to the door which was toward the north Dr. Lightfoot distinguishes this door from that mentioned Ezekiel 8:5 ; this, he says, was the upper north gate, and that the lower; this...
Ezekiel 8:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Chambers of Imagery. B. C. 593. 13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and...
Ezekiel 8:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He brought me, not by real and corporal change of place, but in vision and by representation. Of the gate of the outer court, or court of the women, so called because they were allowed to come in...
Ezekiel 8:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the house of Yahweh which was towards the north, and behold there sat there the women weeping for Tammuz.' This may have been the gate of the outer cou...
Ezekiel 8:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Third and fourth abomination ( Ezekiel 8:13-18 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 8:13-14 . The seer is led from the secret chamber back to the point at which he had first approached to the precincts o...
Ezekiel 8:14 - Scofield Reference Notes

Tammuz That is, the Greek "Adonis".
Ezekiel 8:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 8:1 . As I sat in my house the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me. The time of this vision of Ezekiel is reckoned from the captivity of Jehoiachin or Jeconiah. It happened probably on...
Ezekiel 8:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ezekiel 8:1 And it came to pass, etc. We begin with a fresh date. One year and one month had passed since the vision of Chebar, and had been occupied partly by the acted, partl...
Ezekiel 8:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Various Abominations
Ezekiel 8:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 44:4 ; Ezekiel 46:9
Ezekiel 8:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The door — Of the outer court, or court of the women, so called, because they were allowed to come into it. Weeping — Performing all the lewd and beastly rites of that idol, called by the Greeks, A...

Ezekiel 8:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 8:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezekiel 8:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 8:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 8:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 8:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 8:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 8:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 8:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 8:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 8:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 8:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 8:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 8:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 8:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 8:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 8:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 8:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 8:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 8:14 - Scofield Reference Notes

Ezekiel 8:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 8:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 8:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 8:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 8:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes