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Ezekiel 8:14 Cross-References
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“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 (KJV)
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Commentary on Ezekiel 8:14
Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. God reveals another layer of temple abomination: women engaged in mourning ritual for the pagan deity Tammuz, a Mesopotamian fertility god. This represents comprehensive syncretism where foreign religious practices penetrated the temple itself.The door of the gate of the LORD house which was toward the north locates this practice at the temple northern entrance, a prominent public location. That this occurred at the LORD house emphasizes the shocking locatio...
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Cross-References for Ezekiel 8:14
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“he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in”
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