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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Ezekiel 14:1 → Leviticus 17

Echo

Later text

Ezekiel 14:1BSB

Then some of the elders of Israel came - and sat down before me.

Earlier text

Significance

Ezekiel 14:1-11 condemns Israelites who "set up idols in their hearts" (הֶעֱלוּ גִלּוּלֵיהֶם עַל־לִבָּם, he'elu gillulehem al-libbam) yet presume to inquire of God, echoing Leviticus 17:7 which forbids sacrificing to the שְׂעִירִם (se'irim, "goat-demons") after whom Israel "prostituted themselves." Both texts address the same fundamental problem: divided loyalty in worship, where Israel maintains outward forms of YHWH worship while harboring idolatrous commitments. Ezekiel internalizes the Levitical concern, shifting from external sacrificial infidelity to the inner reality of heart idolatry that God will judge directly. Both texts also converge on the same divine sanction--being "cut off" from the people--as God's judicial response to this idolatrous unfaithfulness (זָנָה, zanah).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the canonical theme of exclusive worship under covenant sanction develops from Leviticus 17 (sacrifices to goat demons as prostitution, the offender cut off) into Ezekiel 14:1-11, where the same case-law idiom and cut-off penalty are turned on elders who "have set up idols in their hearts" (14:3); the law's concern moves inward from external cultic infidelity to heart-idolatry — one theme of undivided worship traced to its interior depth.