More Biblical Instances of Confessing
      The Sins of One’s Ancestors


      Ezra 9:6-7 and prayed: “ . . . our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens. From the days of our forefathers until now, our guilt has been great. . . .”

      Psalms 106:6 We have sinned, even as our fathers did; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

      Jeremiah 14:20 O LORD, we acknowledge our wickedness and the guilt of our fathers; we have indeed sinned against you.

      Jeremiah 32:16-23 I prayed to the LORD: . . . You show love to thousands but bring the punishment for the fathers’ sins into the laps of their children after them. . . . You brought your people Israel out of Egypt . . . They came in and took possession of it, but they did not obey you or follow your law; they did not do what you commanded them to do. So you brought all this disaster upon them. [There was a gap of centuries between the Israelites’ first disobedience and “all this disaster.”]

      Lamentations 5:7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.

      Daniel 9:8,16 O LORD, we and our kings, our princes and our fathers are covered with shame because we have sinned against you. . . . Our sins and the iniquities of our fathers have made Jerusalem and your people an object of scorn to all those around us.

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