Matthew 23:32

Fill up, then, the [allotted] measure of the guilt of your fathers’ sins.

Genesis 15:16

Then in the fourth generation your descendants shall return here [to Canaan, the land of promise], for the wickedness and guilt of the Amorites is not yet complete (finished).”

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.

Zechariah 5:6-11

And I said, “What is it?” And he said, “This is the ephah (grain basket) going forth. This,” he continued, “is their appearance throughout the land

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].

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Matthew 23:32

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

The measure

Genesis 15:16

Numbers 32:14

Zechariah 5:6

General references

Psalm 106:6

Luke 3:20

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The measure

Then in the fourth generation your descendants shall return here [to Canaan, the land of promise], for the wickedness and guilt of the Amorites is not yet complete (finished).”

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.

And I said, “What is it?” And he said, “This is the ephah (grain basket) going forth. This,” he continued, “is their appearance throughout the land

General references

We have sinned like our fathers;
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.

he also added this to them all: he locked up John in prison.

Matthew 23:32

Matthew 23:32

Genesis 15:16

Numbers 32:14

Zechariah 5:6-11

1 Thessalonians 2:16

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The measure

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The measure

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