41 ^e“Then you answered me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ And every one of you fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the hill country.

20 And Achan answered Joshua, “Truly I have sinned ^jagainst the Lord God of Israel, and this is what I did:

25 If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the Lord to put them to death.

13 David said to Nathan, ^r“I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; ^syou shall not die.

Exile Because of Idolatry

7 And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, ^xwho had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods

25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our ^xyouth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”