2 Chronicles 29:6
For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs.
Cross-references
2 Chronicles 28:2-4 details Ahaz's idolatries — the specific trespasses of the fathers that Hezekiah confesses in 29:6.
2 Chronicles 28:23-25 describes Ahaz shutting temple doors and making altars — the evil deeds Hezekiah says fathers committed.
2 Chronicles 34:21 shows Josiah confessing that fathers did not keep God's word — same pattern of confessing ancestral sin.
In Matthew 23:30-32, Jesus condemns the Pharisees as sons of those who killed prophets – a NT parallel to the inherited rebellion confessed in Hezekiah's prayer.
In Daniel 9:16, Daniel pleads for God's wrath to turn away because of 'the iniquities of our fathers' – directly echoing the same confession of ancestral sin.
Ezekiel 8:16 depicts priests literally turning their backs on the temple—the same posture of rebellion confessed here.
In Lamentations 5:7, the lament 'Our fathers sinned, and we bear their iniquities' exactly mirrors the confession of inherited guilt in Hezekiah's prayer.
In Jeremiah 44:21, the LORD remembers that 'you and your fathers' offered incense to other gods – directly echoing the forsaking of God confessed here.
Jeremiah 2:27 uses the identical phrase 'turned their back' to describe Israel's idolatry, mirroring the confession here.
In Jeremiah 2:13, the people are charged with forsaking the LORD, the fountain of living waters – the same forsaking admitted in Hezekiah's confession.
In Nehemiah 9:16, the Levites confess that 'our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their necks' – mirroring the rebellion described in Hezekiah's prayer.
In Ezra 9:7, Ezra confesses that 'from the days of our fathers' Israel has been in great guilt, reinforcing the same pattern of inherited sin and judgment.
Ezra 5:12 confesses that fathers provoked God to wrath, leading to exile — echoing Hezekiah's acknowledgment of fathers' trespass.
Ezekiel 14:6 commands turning faces away from idols, reversing the 'turned away faces' sin confessed here.
Jeremiah 2:17 echoes the same sin of forsaking God, showing that Israel's own abandonment brought calamity.
Jeremiah 26:19 recalls that Hezekiah’s repentance (the king in this passage) averted disaster, showing the effect of the reform.
Zechariah 1:4 warns against repeating the disobedience of the fathers, directly addressing the same ancestral sin.
Nehemiah 1:6 confesses the sins of his father's house, paralleling the corporate confession of ancestral guilt here.
In 2 Kings 22:13, Josiah similarly confesses that 'our fathers' disobeyed, linking ancestral guilt with divine wrath.