Genesis 15:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

But in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.

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  • 1 Kgs 21:26 : 26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as the Amorites did, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
  • Dan 8:23 : 23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their full measure, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall arise.
  • Matt 23:32-35 : 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt. 33 Serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell? 34 Therefore, indeed, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
  • 1 Thess 2:16 : 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the utmost.
  • Exod 12:40 : 40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
  • 2 Pet 3:8-9 : 8 But, beloved, do not be ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is patient toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
  • Zech 5:5-9 : 5 Then the angel who talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up now your eyes, and see what this is that goes forth. 6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance throughout the earth. 7 And, behold, there was lifted up a lead cover: and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah. 8 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon its opening. 9 Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens. 10 Then I said to the angel who talked with me, Where do they carry the ephah? 11 And he said to me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon its own base.

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