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Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh`s house which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.
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Weeping for a Pagan God
Commentators identify Tammuz with a pagan deity, most likely the Greek Adonis or the Egyptian Osiris. This god was associated with nature's cycles, and his worship involved an annual festival of mourning his death followed by celebrating his return to life. This ritual, borrowed from neighboring cultures, was a direct rejection of the one true God.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
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 …
16th Century
Protestant
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 …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
