For our fathers were unfaithful, and have done that which was evil in the LORD our God’s sight, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Chronicles 29:6 in context
2 Chronicles 29:3–9
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In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the LORD’s house and repaired them.
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He brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them together into the wide place on the east,
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and said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry the filthiness out of the holy place.
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For our fathers were unfaithful, and have done that which was evil in the LORD our God’s sight, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.
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Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
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Therefore the LORD’s wrath was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.
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For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
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