The Prophecy of Azariah
2 Chronicles 15:3
In 11 translations
- BSB
- For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law.
- KJV
- Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
- WEB
- Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.
- ASV
- Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:
- LSV
- and many days [are] to Israel without [the] true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,
- YLT
- and many days [are] to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,
- DBY
- Now for a long while Israel [was] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law;Elohim
- DRC
- And many days shall pass in Israel without the true God, and without a priest a teacher, and without the law.
- GNV
- Nowe for a long season Israel hath bene without the true God, and without Priest to teach and without Lawe.
- JPS
- Now for long seasons Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law;
- LXXE
- And Israel has been a long time without the true God, and without a priest to expound the truth, and without the law.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְיָמִ֥ים רַבִּ֖ים לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל לְלֹ֣א ׀ אֱלֹהֵ֣י אֱמֶ֗ת וּלְלֹ֛א כֹּהֵ֥ן מוֹרֶ֖ה וּלְלֹ֥א תוֹרָֽה׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ ἡμέραι πολλαὶ τῷ Ἰσραὴλ ἐν οὐ Θεῷ ἀληθινῷ, καὶ οὐχ ἱερέως ὑποδεικνῦντος, καὶ ἐν οὐ νόμῳ.
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Cross-references most cited first
- 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…
- 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. They taught throughout Judah, taking with…
- 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.
- Hosea 3:4For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.
- 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. “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:
- 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.
- Ezekiel 44:21–23No priest may drink wine before he enters the inner court. And they shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but must marry a virgin of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow of a priest. They are to…
- 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.”
- 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.” One calf he set up…
- 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.
- 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.
- John 17:3Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
- 1 Timothy 3:2An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
- Romans 7:8–9But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead. Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin…
- 1 John 5:20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
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