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Re 18:5 King James For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
her sins--as a great heap.

reached--Greek, "reached so far as to come into close contact with, and to cleave unto."
 
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19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
13 And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.