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Weeping for Tammuz (2)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Fasting and weeping (1) 03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices 03.02 Cult of Ištar 03.02.03 Ecstatic techniques 03.02.03.02 Fasting and weeping (1) Wailing of Tammuz 03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices 03.01 Public festivals 03.01.03 Festival of Tammuz (Tammuz/summer solstice) 03.01.03.01 Wailing of Tammuz	Keywords Tammuz weeping
Period Neo-Babylonian Empire	Channel Old Testament

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The Lord shows Ezekiel women weeping for Tammuz at the gate of the Temple.

Ezekiel 8:14:
Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord’s house which [was] toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

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Ezekiel 8:14

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Robert Whiting

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