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14 He brought me to the north gate of the Temple, and there sat women weeping for Tammuz,[a] their god.

15 “Have you seen this?” he asked. “But I will show you greater evils than these!”

16 Then he brought me into the inner court of the Temple, and there at the door, between the porch and the bronze altar, were about twenty-five men standing with their backs to the Temple of the Lord, facing east, worshiping the sun!

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 8:14 there sat women weeping for Tammuz. The women wept for Tammuz, the god of fertility, because, according to Mesopotamian myths, he had been killed, and fertility had vanished with him.

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