Friday, February 9, 2018

Reading for February 17th

Read Ezekiel 8.14-18
In verses 14-15 women weep for Tammuz, the Babylonian vegetation god who dies at the onset of the dry season and must be brought back to life to inaugurate the rains.
In verses 16-18 Ezekiel sees twenty-five men engaged in sun worship.
The sun god Shamash was the Babylonian god of law and justice.
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