Psalms 106:6
We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
BSB
ASV
We have sinned with our fathers, We have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
KJV
We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
We have sinned with our fathers. As sons we have followed our fathers: we have done what our fathers also did. 'For he has shut up all under sin, that he might have mercy on all.' We have acted unjustly, we have committed iniquity. Note carefully what he says: We have sinned with our fathers, we have acted unjustly, we have committed iniquity. Did he say, we have acted impiously? It is one thing to be a sinner and unjust, another to be impious.
Da 9:5, where the same three verbs occur in the same order and connection, the original of the two later passages being the first one, the prayer of Solomon in dedicating the temple. sinned . . . fathers--like them, and so partaking of their guilt.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 78:8Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
leads to
For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
Through
Nehemiah 9:16But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
leads to
You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly…
But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself…