Verse Ezekiel 8:14. _THERE SAT WOMEN WEEPING FOR TAMMUZ._] This was _Adonis_, as we have already seen; and so the Vulgate here translates. My old MS. Bible reads, _There saten women, mornynge a mawme...
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 month...
CHAPTER S 8-11 Visions in Relation to Jerusalem _ 1. The vision of abomination in the temple (Ezekiel 8:1) _ 2. The vision of the linen-clothed man with the inkhorn (Ezekiel 9:1) 3. The vision of...
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 th...
TAMMUZ. With Art. An idol personifying vegetable and animal life, worshipped in Phoenicia and Babylonia....
The women bewailing Tammuz 14. _gate of the Lord's house_ i.e. outside the whole temple buildings to the north gate of the outer court; cf. ch. Ezekiel 10:19; Ezekiel 11:1. The term "house" embraces a...
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 used...
B. The Abominations of Jerusalem 8:5-16 TRANSLATION (5) And he said unto me, Son of man, set, I pray you, your eyes to the way of the north, and behold, north of the altar gate was this image of jeal...
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 LORD'S...
8:14 Tammuz. (b-26) A Syrian and Phoenician idol identified with Adonis....
§ 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 the J...
THE DOOR.. TOWARD THE NORTH] probably the outer doorway of the outer northern gate. The women would thus be outside the Temple precincts altogether. TAMMUZ] a deity worshipped both in Babylonia and in...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 8 THE FALSE GOD IN THE *TEMPLE – EZEKIEL 8:1-6 V1 It was
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 els...
וַ יָּבֵ֣א אֹתִ֗י אֶל ־פֶּ֨תַח֙ שַׁ֣עַר בֵּית
YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 9:1; Ezekiel 10:1; Ezekiel 11:1 ONE of the most instructive phases of reli
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 as...
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 id...
Adonis, the favourite of Venus, slain by a wild boar, as feigned by the heathen poets, and which being here represented by an idol, is lamented by the female worshippers of that goddess. In Hebrew the...
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...
Chapter 8 begins a new prophecy, which comprises several distinct revelations, and extends to the close of chapter 19 (from the eighth to the end of the eleventh being connected). Judah still existed...
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 sanc...
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 prie...
_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 bei...
VARIOUS ABOMINATIONS...
Then He brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north, where the outer court of the Temple opened toward the outside, AND, BEHOLD, THERE SAT WOMEN WEEPING FOR TAMMU...
13-18 The yearly lamenting for Tammuz was attended with infamous practices; and the worshippers of the sun here described, are supposed to have been priests. The Lord appeals to the prophet concernin...
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 into it...
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‘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 court...
TAMMUZ That is, the Greek "Adonis"....
CONTENTS: Third vision of the glory. The former profanation of the temple and God's anger because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Jaazaniah. CONCLUSION: Those are ripe indeed for ruin who have giv...
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 th...
_Third and fourth abomination_ (Ezekiel 8:13) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 8:13. The seer is led from the secret chamber back to the point at which he had first approached to the precincts of the Temple...
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, partly by the spo...
CHAPTER 8. THE IMAGE OF JEALOUSY AND OTHER ABOMINATIONS AT JERUSALEM. Ezekiel 8:1. _And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth (month), in the fifth of the month, I was sitting in my house,...
Now we move into a new section of the book that is really a conclusion of his first prophesy. It came to pass now in the sixth year, and in the sixth month, and in the fifth day of the month, as I sa...
Ezekiel 44:4; Ezekiel 46:9...
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, Adon...