Isaiah 65:7
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.
Cross-reference
Isaiah 65:6 introduces the repayment measure that Isaiah 65:7 then specifies for their iniquities.
Isaiah 57:7 describes the same idolatry of offering on mountains — the very sin God repays in Isaiah 65:7.
Jeremiah 7:20 expands on God's unquenchable wrath poured out on the land — directly paralleling the judgment for burning incense on mountains.
1 Thessalonians 2:16 says Jews 'fill up the measure of their sins' — directly echoing Isaiah's theme of cumulative guilt bringing wrath.
In Matthew 23:32, Jesus invokes this same 'fill up the measure' concept — applying it to the Pharisees completing ancestral sins.
Matthew 23:31-36 warns Pharisees will bear guilt of all righteous blood — NT application of inherited judgment.
Daniel 9:8 confesses shame for sins of our fathers — a direct echo of the corporate guilt in Isaiah.
Ezekiel 20:28 describes offering sacrifices on every high hill, mirroring the exact sin Isaiah 65:7 judges.
Ezekiel 20:27 recounts fathers blaspheming by offering on hills, directly parallel to the insult on hills in Isaiah 65:7.
Ezekiel 18:6 lists avoiding eating on mountains as righteous behavior, contrasting the sin Isaiah 65:7 condemns.
Exodus 20:5 establishes God visiting fathers' iniquities on children — the same principle Isaiah applies.
Psalm 106:6 confesses 'both we and our fathers have sinned' — identical acknowledgment of shared guilt.
2 Kings 16:4 has Ahaz sacrificing on high places and hills, a direct example of the sin Isaiah 65:7 punishes.
2 Kings 15:35 shows Jotham left high places, illustrating the chronic sin that brings God's repayment in Isaiah 65:7.
2 Kings 14:4 states Amaziah also left high places, reinforcing the pattern of sin Isaiah 65:7 addresses.
2 Kings 12:3 records Jehoash did not remove high places, echoing the ongoing idolatry Isaiah 65:7 condemns.
1 Kings 22:43 notes even righteous Jehoshaphat left high places intact, showing the persistent sin that Isaiah 65:7 punishes.
Leviticus 26:39 warns of rotting for own and fathers' iniquities — direct parallel to Isaiah's inherited guilt.
Jeremiah 13:27 explicitly mentions 'hills' and 'whorings' — matching the mountain idolatry in Isaiah 65:7, reinforcing the same sin.
Jeremiah 18:15 shows people forgetting God and offering to false gods — similar to the idolatry on mountains in Isaiah 65:7.
Hosea 11:2 recounts Israel sacrificing to Baals — paralleling the burning incense on mountains in Isaiah 65:7.
Numbers 32:14 rebukes a generation for rising like their sinful fathers — similar theme of ancestral sin.