Ezekiel 8:14-15
New Living Translation
14 He brought me to the north gate of the Lord’s Temple, and some women were sitting there, weeping for the god Tammuz. 15 “Have you seen this?” he asked. “But I will show you even more detestable sins than these!”
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Ezekiel 8:14-15
Living Bible
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!”
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- 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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