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14 Then he took me to entrance at the north gate of the temple. I saw some women who were sitting there. They were weeping because the god Tammuz was dead.[a] 15 He said to me, ‘Son of man, look at that! But you will see even worse things than these.’

16 Then the Lord took me to the inside yard of his temple. I could see about 25 men who were standing between the altar and the front of the temple. Their backs were turned towards the Lord's temple. Their faces looked towards the east. They were bending down low to worship the sun that was rising in the east![b]

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Footnotes

  1. 8:14 Tammuz was a false god that the Babylonian people worshipped. Every year, Babylonian women would remember his death and they would weep. Now Ezekiel could see that Israelite women were also doing this in the Lord's temple.
  2. 8:16 The inside yard of the temple was a holy place for Israelites to worship the Lord. But these men were worshipping the sun god of Babylon.