8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

• Idolatry
• Repentance
• Sin

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Sam 15:11 — It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
• 2Pet 2:18 — For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
• 2Pet 2:21 — For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
• 2Thess 1:8 — In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
• Amos 5:7 — Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
• Ezek 3:20 — Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his si
• Ezek 18:24 — But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he
• Heb 2:3 — How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
• Heb 10:38 — Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
• Heb 10:38 — Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
• Hos 4:10 — For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
• Hos 4:15 — Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
• Hos 7:7 — They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
• Hos 11:7 — And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
• Isa 1:4 — Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away
• Isa 9:13 — For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
• Isa 43:22 — But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.
• Jer 2:13 — For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
• Jer 2:17 — Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
• Jer 3:10 — And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
• Jer 10:25 — Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation d
• Jer 11:10 — They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my cov
• Jer 15:6 — Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
• Jer 18:10 — If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
• Job 23:11 — My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
• Job 34:27 — Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:
• John 6:66 — From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
• Josh 23:12 — Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
• Luke 11:26 — Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
• Prov 14:14 — The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
• Prov 21:16 — The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
• Ps 10:4 — The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
• Ps 14:2 — The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
• Ps 36:3 — The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
• Ps 44:18 — Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
• Ps 125:5 — As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
• Ps 125:5 — As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
• Rom 3:11 — There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
• Ruth 1:15 — And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.