Ezekiel 8:14 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 8:14

Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.

BSB

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ASV

Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Jehovah’s house which was toward the north; and behold, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

4 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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 sanctuary of the Lord; that gate of the temple (for the temple had several gates) which was to the north was the gate called Teri or Tedi, and was very little used (y).

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The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel (420)

(Verse 13, 14). And he said to me: You will still see greater abominations that they (or these) do. And he brought me through the entrance of the gate of the house of the Lord, which faced north; and behold, there were women sitting there, mourning for Adonis. Whom we interpret as Adonis, and in the Hebrew and Syriac languages is called Thamuz.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Yet such absurdities as these are those guilty of who follow after lying vanities and forsake their own mercies. Some think it was for Adonis, an idol among the Greeks, other for Osiris, an idol of the Egyptians, that they shed these tears. The image, they say, was made to weep, and then the worshippers wept with it.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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 mawmete of lecherye that is cleped Adonrdes. He is fabled to have been a beautiful youth beloved by Venus, and killed by a wild boar in Mount Lebanon, whence springs the river Adonis, which was fabled to run blood at his festival in August.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּבֵ֣א	vai.ya.Ve'	and he brought	H935 →
אֹתִ֗י	'o.Ti	<obj.> me	H853 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
פֶּ֙תַח֙	pe.tach	[the] entrance of	H6607 →
שַׁ֣עַר	Sha.'ar	[the] gate of	H8179 →
בֵּית־	beit-	[the] house of	H1004 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֲשֶׁ֖ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
אֶל־	'el-	[was] to	H413 →
הַצָּפ֑וֹנָה	ha.tza.Fo.nah	the north towards	H6828 →
וְהִנֵּה־	ve.hi.neh-	and there!	H2009 →
שָׁם֙	sham	there	H8033 →
הַנָּשִׁ֣ים	ha.na.Shim	the women	H802 →
יֹֽשְׁב֔וֹת	yo.she.Vot	[were] sitting	H3427 →
מְבַכּ֖וֹת	me.va.Kot	bewailing	H1058 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַתַּמּֽוּז׃ ס	ha.ta.Muz	<the> Tammuz	H8542 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ezekiel 46:9
When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by the north gate to worship must go out by the south gate, and whoever enters by the…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 16:16
  Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast…
- Psalms 84:7
  They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.
- Exodus 34:23
  Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Through
Ezekiel 44:4
Then the man brought me to the front of the temple by way of the north gate. I looked and saw the glory of the LORD filling His temple, and I fell facedown.
leads to
- Ezekiel 1:28
  The appearance of the brilliant light all around Him was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the…
- Ezekiel 3:23
  So I got up and went out to the plain, and behold, the glory of the LORD was present there, like the glory I had seen by the River Kebar, and I fell facedown.
- Revelation 1:17
  When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,
- Ezekiel 40:20
  He also measured the length and width of the gateway of the outer court facing north.
- Ezekiel 43:3–5

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The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Ezekiel