The harlot’s sins are piled up as high as heaven (Revelation 18:5), like the evils of Sodom and the sins of Israel.
The specific language draws on 2 Kings 3:3, which (in the LXX) speaks of the piling-up of the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel sin and is the only text in the LXX (so far as I’ve found) which uses the same phrasing as Revelation 18.
Eventually, Jeroboam’s sins were piled so high that the Lord just cleared the land, and Revelation 18 tells us that this process is being repeated in the first century.
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