2 Chronicles 29:6
Christian Standard Bible
6 For our ancestors were unfaithful and did what is evil in the sight of the Lord our God. They abandoned him, turned their faces away from the Lord’s dwelling place, and turned their backs on him.[a](A)
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- 29:6 Lit and they gave the back of the neck
2 Chronicles 29:6
New International Version
6 Our parents(A) were unfaithful;(B) they did evil in the eyes of the Lord our God and forsook him. They turned their faces away from the Lord’s dwelling place and turned their backs on him.
Jeremiah 2:27
Christian Standard Bible
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,(A)
yet in their time of disaster(B) they beg,
“Rise up and save us!”
Jeremiah 18:17
Christian Standard Bible
17 I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind.(A)
I will show them[a] my back and not my face(B)
on the day of their calamity.
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- 18:17 LXX, Lat, Syr, Tg; MT reads will look at them
Jeremiah 18:17
New International Version
Ezekiel 8:16
Christian Standard Bible
16 So he brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house, and there were about twenty-five men at the entrance of the Lord’s temple, between the portico and the altar,(A) with their backs to the Lord’s temple and their faces turned to the east.(B) They were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.(C)
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Ezekiel 8:16
New International Version
16 He then brought me into the inner court(A) of the house of the Lord, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar,(B) were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun(C) in the east.(D)
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