2 Chronicles 29:6

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.