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2 Chron. 29:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Forh our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have forsaken him, andi have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and γturned their backs.

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Neh. 9:16• ¹⁶But they, our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments, (Neh. 9:16)

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Jer. 2:27• ²⁷saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth; for they have turned the back unto me, and not the face; and in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us! (Jer. 2:27)

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Ezek. 8:16• ¹⁶And he brought me into the inner court of Jehovah's house, and behold, at the entry of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. (Ezek. 8:16)

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given the neck.

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For our fathers.

2 Chron. 28:2‑4,23‑25• ²but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made molten images for the Baals;
³and he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel.
⁴And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
²³And he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which had smitten him; and he said, Since the gods of the kings of Syria help them, I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
²⁴And Ahaz gathered the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and closed the doors of the house of Jehovah, and he made for himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
²⁵And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger Jehovah the God of his fathers. (2 Chron. 28:2‑4,23‑25)

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2 Chron. 34:21• ²¹Go, inquire of Jehovah for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book which is found; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Jehovah, to do according to all that is written in this book. (2 Chron. 34:21)

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Ezra 5:12• ¹²But after that our fathers had provoked the God of the heavens to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, and he destroyed this house, and carried the people away unto Babylon. (Ezra 5:12)

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Ezra 9:7• ⁷Since the days of our fathers, we have been in great trespass to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, our priests, have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, and to captivity, and to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day. (Ezra 9:7)

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Neh. 9:16,32• ¹⁶But they, our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
³²And now, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible *God, who keepest covenant and loving-kindness, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the days of the kings of Assyria unto this day. (Neh. 9:16,32)

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Jer. 16:19• ¹⁹Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of distress, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and they shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited falsehood and vanity; and in these things there is no profit. (Jer. 16:19)

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Jer. 44:21• ²¹Is it not the incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye and your fathers, your kings and your princes and the people of the land, that Jehovah remembered, and that came into his mind? (Jer. 44:21)

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Lam. 5:7• ⁷Our fathers have sinned, and they are not; and we bear their iniquities. (Lam. 5:7)

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Dan. 9:16• ¹⁶Lord, according to all thy righteousnesses, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; for because of our sins, and because of the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all round about us. (Dan. 9:16)

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Matt. 10:37• ³⁷He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me. (Matt. 10:37)

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Matt. 23:30‑32• ³⁰and ye say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
³¹So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets:
³²and *ye*, fill ye up the measure of your fathers. (Matt. 23:30‑32)

have forsaken him.

Jer. 2:13,17• ¹³For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, to hew them out cisterns, broken cisterns that hold no water.
¹⁷Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, at the time he was leading thee in the way? (Jer. 2:13,17)

turned away.

Jer. 2:27• ²⁷saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth; for they have turned the back unto me, and not the face; and in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us! (Jer. 2:27)

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Ezek. 8:16• ¹⁶And he brought me into the inner court of Jehovah's house, and behold, at the entry of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. (Ezek. 8:16)

turned their backs.

Heb. given the neck.

• He whose father had committed these abominations, without breaking the commandment "Honor thy father," openly confesses the sin committed: "Our fathers have transgressed." (“Hezekiah - Purification: 2 Chronicles 29” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For our fathers have transgressed, and done evil in the sight of Jehovah our God, and have forsaken him and turned away their faces from the habitationc of Jehovah, and have turned their backs.

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Or "tabernacle"; see Ex. 25.9; Ps. 74.7, etc.