Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Our ancestors were unfaithful to the LORD our God and did what was displeasing to him. They abandoned him and turned their backs on the place where he dwells. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Our fathers have sinned and done evil in the sight of the Lord God, forsaking him: they have turned away their faces from the tabernacle of the Lord, and turned their backs. For our fathers 2 Chronicles 28:2-4,23-25 But walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; moreover also he cast statues for Baalim. . . . 2 Chronicles 34:21 Go, and pray to the Lord for me, and for the remnant of Israel, and Juda, concerning all the words of this book, which is found: for the great wrath of the Lord hath fallen upon us, because our fathers have not kept the words of the Lord, to do all things that are written in this book. Ezra 5:12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he delivered them into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon the Chaldean: and he destroyed this house, and carried away the people to Babylon. Ezra 9:7 From the days of our fathers: and we ourselves also have sinned grievously unto this day, and for our iniquities we and our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the lands, and to the sword, and to captivity, and to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is at this day. Nehemiah 9:16,32 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments. . . . Jeremiah 16:19 O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not profited them. Jeremiah 44:21 Was it not the sacrifice that you offered in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, which the Lord hath remembered, and hath it not entered into his heart? Lamentations 5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities. Daniel 9:16 O Lord, against all thy justice: let thy wrath and thy indignation be turned away, I beseech thee, from thy city, Jerusalem, and from thy holy mountain. For by reason of our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem, and thy people, are a reproach to all that are round about us. Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. Matthew 23:30-32 And 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. . . . have forsaken him Jeremiah 2:13,17 For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. . . . turned away Jeremiah 2:27 Saying to a stock: Thou art my father: and to a stone: Thou hast begotten me: they have turned their back to me, and not their face: and in the time of their affliction they will say: Arise, and deliver us. Ezekiel 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord: and behold at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men having their backs towards the temple of the Lord, in their faces to the east: and they adored towards the rising of the sun. Context Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple…5And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites, and be sanctified, purify the house of the Lord the God of your fathers, and take away all filth out of the sanctuary. 6Our fathers have sinned and done evil in the sight of the Lord God, forsaking him: they have turned away their faces from the tabernacle of the Lord, and turned their backs.7They have shut up the doors that were in the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burnt incense, nor offered holocausts in the sanctuary of the God of Israel.… Cross References Ezra 9:7 From the days of our fathers: and we ourselves also have sinned grievously unto this day, and for our iniquities we and our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the lands, and to the sword, and to captivity, and to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is at this day. Nehemiah 1:6 Let thy ears be attentive, and thy eyes open, to hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, night and day, for the children of Israel thy servants: and I confess the sins of the children of Israel, by which they have sinned against thee: I and my father's house have sinned. Jeremiah 26:19 Did Ezechias king of Juda, and all Juda, condemn him to death? did they not fear the Lord, and beseech the face of the Lord: and the Lord repented of the evil that he had spoken against them? therefore we are doing a great evil against our souls. Ezekiel 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord: and behold at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men having their backs towards the temple of the Lord, in their faces to the east: and they adored towards the rising of the sun. Ezekiel 18:14 But if he beget a son, who, seeing all his father's sins, which he hath done, is afraid, and shall not do the like to them: Jump to Previous Acted Backs Dwelling Evil Eyes Faces Fathers Forsake Forsaken Forsook Habitation House Lord's Neck Round Sight Sinning Tabernacle Transgressed Treacherously Trespassed Turn Turned UnfaithfulJump to Next Acted Backs Dwelling Evil Eyes Faces Fathers Forsake Forsaken Forsook Habitation House Lord's Neck Round Sight Sinning Tabernacle Transgressed Treacherously Trespassed Turn Turned UnfaithfulLinks 2 Chronicles 29:6 NIV2 Chronicles 29:6 NLT 2 Chronicles 29:6 ESV 2 Chronicles 29:6 NASB 2 Chronicles 29:6 Bible Apps 2 Chronicles 29:6 Biblia Paralela 2 Chronicles 29:6 Chinese Bible 2 Chronicles 29:6 French Bible 2 Chronicles 29:6 German Bible Alphabetical: and away backs been did done dwelling evil eyes faces fathers For forsaken forsook from God have him in LORD Lord's of on Our place sight the their they turned unfaithful were OT History: 2 Chronicles 29:6 For our fathers have trespassed and done (2 Chron. 2Ch iiCh ii ch 2 chr 2chr) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |