Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

Blasphemed

Bible References

Your iniquities

Exodus 20:5
You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous (impassioned) God [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely mine], visiting (avenging) the iniquity (sin, guilt) of the fathers on the children [that is, calling the children to account for the sins of their fathers], to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Leviticus 26:39
Those of you who are left will rot away because of their wickedness in the lands of your enemies; also because of the wickedness of their forefathers they will rot away like them.
Numbers 32:14
Now look, you [the tribes of Reuben and Gad] have risen up in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to add still more to the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.
Psalm 106:6

We have sinned like our fathers;
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.
Daniel 9:8
O Lord, to us belong confusion and open shame—to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers—because we have sinned against You.
Matthew 23:31
So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Blasphemed

Ezekiel 20:27
“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Again in this your fathers have blasphemed Me, in that they acted faithlessly and treacherously against Me.

Therefore

Isaiah 65:6

“Indeed, it is written before Me,
I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will even repay it [directly] into their arms,
Jeremiah 5:9

“Shall I not punish them [for these things]?” says the Lord;
“Shall I not avenge Myself
On a nation such as this?”
Jeremiah 7:19
Do they offend and provoke Me to anger?” says the Lord. “Is it not themselves [they offend], to their own shame?”
Jeremiah 13:25

“This is your destiny, the portion [of judgment] measured to you
From Me,” says the Lord,
“Because you have forgotten Me
And trusted in [pagan] lies [the counterfeit gods, and the pretense of alliance].”
Matthew 23:32
Fill up, then, the [allotted] measure of the guilt of your fathers’ sins.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
forbidding us from speaking to the Gentiles (non-Jews) so that they may be saved. So, as always, they fill up [to the brim] the measure of their sins [allotted to them by God]. But [God’s] wrath has come upon them at last [completely and forever].