Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
The measure
General references
Bible References
The measure
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
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
Psalm 106:6
We have sinned like our fathers;
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.
We have sinned like our fathers;
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.
Luke 3:20
he also added this to them all: he locked up John in prison.