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2 Chronicles 15:3

For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law.

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ASV

Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:

KJV

Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

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11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְיָמִ֥יםve.ya.Mimand daysH3117 →
רַבִּ֖יםra.BimmanyH7227 →
לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֑לle.Yis.ra.'El[belonged] to IsraelH3478 →
לְלֹ֣א׀le.Lo'to notH3808 →
אֱלֹהֵ֣י'e.lo.Hei[the] God ofH430 →
אֱמֶ֗ת'e.MettruthH571 →
וּלְלֹ֛אu.le.Lo'and to notH3808 →
כֹּהֵ֥ןko.Hena priestH3548 →
מוֹרֶ֖הmo.Reh[who] teachesH3384 →
וּלְלֹ֥אu.le.Lo'and to notH3808 →
תוֹרָֽה׃to.Rah[the] lawH8451 →

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Amos 8:11Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.Hosea 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.Ephesians 4:11And it was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,Nehemiah 8:9Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law.2 Chronicles 17:8–9accompanied by certain Levites—Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah—along with the priests Elishama and Jehoram.Leviticus 10:11so that you may teach the Israelites all the statutes that the LORD has given them through Moses.”Jeremiah 10:10But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.2 Chronicles 17:7In the third year of his reign, Jehoshaphat sent his officials Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah to teach in the cities of Judah,Ephesians 2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.Micah 3:11Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”Matthew 2:4–5And when he had assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.Ezekiel 44:21–23No priest may drink wine before he enters the inner court.Malachi 2:7For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.Hosea 3:4For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.Lamentations 2:9Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.Romans 2:12All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.1 Kings 12:28–33After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”Deuteronomy 33:10He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob and Your law to Israel; he will set incense before You and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.

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