Ezekiel 14:3

“Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, &c.] Though they look so grave and demure, seem so devout and religious, and hear with so much attention and reverence, and express such a desire of consulting me by thee, they are no other than idolaters; and though they are at such a distance from their native place, and have not their idols with them, yet they have them in their fancy and imagination, and their hearts are after them, and are set upon them; these engross their affections, they are near and dear unto them, notwithstanding all their pretensions: or, they “have caused their idols to ascend upon their heart”f181; their hearts are the altars on which they worship…”

“heart . . . face--The heart is first corrupted, and then the outward manifestation of idol-worship follows; they set their idols before their eyes. With all their pretense of consulting God now, they have not even put away their idols outwardly; implying gross contempt of God. "Set up," literally, "aloft"; implying that their idols had gained the supreme ascendancy over them. stumbling-block of . . . iniquity--See Pro 3:21, Pro 3:23, "Let not them (God's laws) depart from thine eyes, then . . . thy foot shall not stumble." Instead of God's law, which (by being kept before their eyes) would have saved them from stumbling, they set up their idols before their eyes, which proved a…”

“Set up - Are resolved idolaters. The stumbling block - Their idols which were both the object of their sin, and occasion of their ruin. Ezekiel 14:4”

“these men: Eze 14:4, Eze 14:7, Eze 6:9, Eze 11:21, Eze 20:16, Eze 36:25; Jer 17:1, Jer 17:2, Jer 17:9; Eph 5:5 and put: Eze 3:20, Eze 7:19, Eze 44:12; Jer 44:16-18; Zep 1:3; Pe1 2:8; Rev 2:14 should: Eze 20:3; Sa1 28:6; Kg2 3:13; Psa 66:18, Psa 101:3; Pro 15:8, Pro 15:29, Pro 21:27, Pro 28:9; Isa 1:15, Isa 33:15; Jer 7:8-11, Jer 11:11, Jer 42:20, Jer 42:21; Zac 7:13; Luk 20:8 Ezekiel 14:4”