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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-worsh…

Women weeping for Tammuz. The prophet is now taken to the north gate of the outer enclosure of the Temple courts, where he sees a …

He now mentions the third kind of idolatry by which the Jews polluted the temple, for this was a kind of sin peculiar to females; and we know that …

Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's
house, which [was] towards the north

The yearly lamenting for Tammuz was accompanied by infamous practices; and the sun worshippers described here are thought to have been priests. The…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes