Our fathers have trespassed He does not say my father, because it became him, as a son, to be as tender as might be of his father's name; and because his father would not have been permitted to do all these things, if the people had not neglected their duty. Urijah the priest, in particular, had joined with Ahaz in setting up an idolatrous altar. Have turned away their faces, &c., and turned their backs Have wilfully and obstinately forsaken God and his worship; that posture being a signification of contempt.
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2 Chronicles 29:6
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.