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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.
This verse is expressed in a setting of when GOD was showing Ezekiel abominable images that were being committed by Israel in worshipping other gods.
From the secret abominations of the chambers of imagery, the prophet's eye is turned to the outer court at the north door; within the outer court women were not admitted, but only to the door.
The yearly lamenting for Tammuz was attended with infamous practices; and the worshippers of the Sun here described, are supposed to have been priests. The Lord appeals to the prophet concerning the heinousness of the crime; "and lo, they put the branch to their nose," denoting some custom used by idolaters in honor of the idols they served. The more we examine human nature and our own hearts, the more abominations we shall discover; and the longer the believer searches himself, the more he will humble himself before God, and the more will he value the fountain open for sin, and seek to wash therein.
The Hebrew word "Tammuz" means, "to melt down." Instead of weeping for the national sins, they wept for the idol. Tammuz (Syrian for "Adonis"), the paramour of Venus, and of the same name as the river flowing from Lebanon; killed by a wild boar, and, according to the fable, permitted to spend half the year on Earth, and obliged to spend the other half in the lower world. An annual feast was celebrated to him in June (hence called "Tammuz" in the Jewish calendar) at Byblos, when the Syrian women, in wild grief, tore off their hair and yielded their persons to prostitution, consecrating the hire of their infamy to Venus; next followed days of rejoicing for his return to the Earth; the former feast being called "the disappearance of Adonis," the latter, "the finding of Adonis."
This Phœnician feast answered to the similar Egyptian one in honor of Osiris. The idea thus fabled was that of the waters of the river and the beauties of spring destroyed by the summer heat. Or else the Earth being clothed with beauty during the six months the Sun is in the upper hemisphere, and losing it when he departs to the lower. The name "Adonis" is not used here, as "Adon" is the appropriated title of Jehovah...