KJV King James Version
Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
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2 Chronicles 15:3
Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law.
WEB World English Bible
Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
ASV American Standard Version
Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and many days are to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,
Surrounding context — 2 Chronicles 15
1 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD [is] with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
3 Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
4 But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
5 And in those times [there was] no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations [were] upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
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Nehemiah 8:9And Nehemiah, which [is] the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day [is] holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.Leviticus 10:11And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.2 Chronicles 17:8-9And with them [he sent] Levites, [even] Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.Jeremiah 10:10But the LORD [is] the true God, he [is] the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.Ezekiel 44:21-23Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.Matthew 2:4-5And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.Malachi 2:7For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he [is] the messenger of the LORD of hosts.Micah 3:11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.Hosea 3:4For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and [without] teraphim:1 Kings 12:28-33Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves [of] gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.Romans 2:12For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;Deuteronomy 33:10They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.Romans 7:8-9But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.1 Corinthians 9:21To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.1 Thessalonians 1:9For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;1 John 5:20And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.1 Timothy 3:2A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;John 17:3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
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