Ezekiel 8:14

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 8:14

Tammuz. With Art. An idol personifying vegetable and animal life, worshipped in Phoenicia and Babylonia. read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ezekiel 8:14

"Then he brought me to the door of Jehovah's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz. Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O Son of man? thou shalt again see yet greater abominations than these."THE WORSHIP OF TAMMUZTAMMUZ"Behold, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz ..." (Ezekiel 8:14). The worship of this ancient god reaches back into antiquity as far as 3,000 B.C.; and it featured numerous combinations, contradictions and uncertainties.... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 8:14

Ezekiel 8:14. 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 for the tenth month, reckoning from the autumnal equinox, that is to say, the month of June; and Tammuz, as the object of worship, expresses the solar light in its perfection, as it is at the summer solstice in the month of June, dispensing heat and its effects, not only to the earth... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

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

14. From the secret abominations of the chambers of imagery, the prophet's eye is turned to the outer court at the north door; within the outer court women were not admitted, but only to the door. sat—the attitude of mourners (Job 2:13; Isaiah 3:26). Tammuz—from a Hebrew root, "to melt down." Instead of weeping for the national sins, they wept for the idol. Tammuz (the Syrian for Adonis), the paramour of Venus, and of the same name as the river flowing from Lebanon; killed by a wild boar, and,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 8:14

The Lord then brought Ezekiel to the north entrance to the inner temple courtyard, in his vision (cf. Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 8:5). There the prophet saw women weeping for Tammuz (cf. Isaiah 17:10-11). Tammuz was an ancient Sumerian and then Akkadian fertility deity, the husband and brother of Ishtar. The Sumerian and Akkadian civilizations preceded the Babylonian civilization in Mesopotamia. Tammuz had ties to the Canaanite Baal and the Greek Adonis and Aphrodite gods. [Note: See Edwin Yamauchi,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 8:14-15

The idolatry of the women 8:14-15 read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 8:1-18

The Idolatry of JerusalemVarious forms of idolatry, increasing in heinousness and rising to a climax, were seen practised in the precincts of the Temple. First there was the ’image of jealousy’ (Ezekiel 8:3-6), next a species of secret animal-worship (Ezekiel 8:7-12), then the lamentation of the women for Tammuz (Ezekiel 8:13-15), and lastly the worship of the sun (Ezekiel 8:16-18).1. The sixth year.. the sixth month] August-September, 591 b.c. Mine house] to which Ezekiel’s prophetic activity... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 8:1-25

§ 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 Jewish colony at Tel-abib, and in their presence he fell into a trance, during which he was transported in spirit to Jerusalem, and witnessed, as in a dream, a remarkable drama being enacted there. The glory of God was present during this vision in the same symbolic form, and accompanied by the same... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ezekiel 8:14

(14) 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 else mentioned in Scripture, but is identified by ancient tradition (incorporated into the Vulg.) with the Greek Adonis, the beloved of Venus. The name Adonis could not well have been used, because in its Hebrew form it means Lord, and is frequently used of God. His worship is first heard of in... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ezekiel 8:1-18

Ezekiel 8:3 There was a man once a poet. He went wandering through the streets of the city, and he met a disciple. 'Come out with me,' said the poet, 'for a walk in the sand-dunes,' and they went. But ere they had progressed many stages, said the disciple: 'There is nothing here but sand'. 'To what did I invite you?' asked the poet. 'To a walk in the sand-dunes.' 'Then do not complain,' said the poet. 'Yet even so your words are untrue. There is Heaven above. Do you not see it? The fault is not... read more

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