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.
Ver. 14. And, behold, there sat women.] These were priests of Isis, whose impious and most impudent kind of worship is largely described by Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, Plutarch, and Eusebius, as celebrated with very unseemly ceremonies, worse, if it might be, than those of Priapus. But who would ever have looked for such immodest doings among God's professed people? See 1 Corinthians 5:1 .
Weeping for Tammuz,] i.e., For Osiris, king of Egypt, and idolatrously adoring his image, which his wife Isis had advanced.