Text: Ezekiel 14:1
OT Text Referred to: Leviticus 17
Subject: heart idolatry
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None
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.
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Text: Leviticus 17
OT Text Referred to: Ezekiel 14:1
Subject: heart idolatry
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Leviticus 17:7 prohibits Israel from sacrificing to שְׂעִירִם (se'irim, "goat demons"), declaring that such worship constitutes spiritual prostitution (זָנָה, zanah). Ezekiel 14:1-8 develops this theme by diagnosing the elders who come to inquire of the LORD as having "set up idols in their hearts" (גִּלּוּלִים, gillulim) — they seek God's word while harboring internal idolatry. The connection traces the progression from Leviticus's prohibition of external idol-worship to Ezekiel's exposure of internalized idolatry: the same spiritual adultery condemned in Leviticus 17 has now migrated from open fields to the heart. God's response in both texts is judicial exclusion — being "cut off" from the people.