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Ezekiel 8:16
So He brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house, and there were about 25 men at the entrance of the Lord’s temple, between the portico and the altar, with their backs to the Lord’s temple and their faces turned to the east. They were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.
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Jeremiah 2:27
say to a tree,“ You are my father,” and to a stone,“ You gave birth to me.” For they have turned their back to Me and not their face, yet in their time of disaster they beg,“ Rise up and save us!”
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Nehemiah 9:16
But our ancestors acted arrogantly; they became stiff-necked and did not listen to Your commands.
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Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned; they no longer exist, but we bear their punishment.
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Jeremiah 44:21
“ As for the incense you burned in Judah’s cities and in Jerusalem’s streets— you, your fathers, your kings, your officials, and the people of the land— did the Lord not remember them? He brought this to mind.
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Jeremiah 2:17
Have you not brought this on yourself by abandoning the Lord your God while He was leading you along the way?
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Ezra 9:7
Our guilt has been terrible from the days of our fathers until the present. Because of our iniquities we have been handed over, along with our kings and priests, to the surrounding kings, and to the sword, captivity, plundering, and open shame, as it is today.
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Ezra 5:12
But since our fathers angered the God of heaven, He handed them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.
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Daniel 9:16
Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, may Your anger and wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become an object of ridicule to all those around us.
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2 Chronicles 28 23-2 Chronicles 28 25
He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him; he said,“ Since the gods of the kings of Aram are helping them, I will sacrifice to them so that they will help me.” But they were the downfall of him and of all Israel.Then Ahaz gathered up the utensils of God’s temple, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the Lord’s temple, and made himself altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.He made high places in every city of Judah to offer incense to other gods, and he provoked the Lord, the God of his ancestors.
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2 Chronicles 28 2-2 Chronicles 28 4
for he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and made cast images of the Baals.He burned incense in the Valley of Hinnom and burned his children in the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
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Jeremiah 2:13
For My people have committed a double evil: They have abandoned Me, the fountain of living water, and dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.
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Jeremiah 16:19
Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in a time of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say,“ Our fathers inherited only lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.”
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2 Chronicles 34 21
“ Go. Ask Yahweh for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah, concerning the words of the book that was found. For great is the Lord’s wrath that is poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord in order to do everything written in this book.”
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Matthew 10:37
The person who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; the person who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
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Matthew 23:30-32
and you say,‘ If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have taken part with them in shedding the prophets’ blood.’You, therefore, testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ sins!
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Nehemiah 9:32
So now, our God— the great, mighty, and awe-inspiring God who keeps His gracious covenant— do not view lightly all the hardships that have afflicted us, our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the Assyrian kings until today.