Text: Ezekiel 6:4-7
OT Text Referred to: Leviticus 26:30-31
Subject: destruction of high places and idols as covenant curse
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment
Significance: Ezekiel 6:4-7 systematically enacts the covenant curses of Leviticus 26:30-31. Both passages describe the destruction of בָּמוֹת (bamot, "high places"), the cutting down of חַמָּנִים (chammanim, "incense altars"), and the scattering of bones before idols (גִּלּוּלִים, gillulim). Leviticus 26:31 adds that God will "not smell the aroma of your offerings," while Ezekiel 6:6 expands to include demolished cities and desecrated worship sites. The extended passage shows that the curse threatened at Sinai is now being fulfilled point by point, confirming Ezekiel's theological claim that exile results from covenant violation, not from divine caprice.
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Text: Leviticus 26:30-31
OT Text Referred to: Ezekiel 6:4-7
Subject: destruction of high places and incense altars
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment
Significance: Leviticus 26:30-31 threatens destruction of high places (בָּמוֹת), incense altars (חַמָּנִים), and the desolation of sanctuaries, with corpses piled on broken idols (גִּלּוּלִים). Ezekiel 6:4-7 proclaims the execution of this curse in graphic detail: altars demolished, incense altars smashed, the slain falling before their idols, bones scattered around the altars. Ezekiel expands the Levitical warning with vivid imagery of scattered bones and widespread desolation across "all your dwelling places" (6:6), portraying the judgment as comprehensive rather than localized. The extensive verbal overlap — בָּמוֹת, חַמָּנִים, גִּלּוּלִים — establishes Ezekiel 6 as the prophetic announcement that the covenant curses of Leviticus 26 are now being enacted against Israel's idolatry.