Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach and without the law. New Living Translation For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach them, and without the Law to instruct them. English Standard Version For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law, Berean Standard Bible For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law. King James Bible Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law. New King James Version For a long time Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law; New American Standard Bible For many days Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without the Law. NASB 1995 “For many days Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without law. NASB 1977 “And for many days Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without law. Legacy Standard Bible Now for many days Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without law. Amplified Bible Now for a long time Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest, and without [God’s] law. Christian Standard Bible For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without instruction, Holman Christian Standard Bible For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without instruction, American Standard Version Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law: Contemporary English Version For a long time, the people of Israel did not worship the true God or listen to priests who could teach them about God. They refused to obey God's Law. English Revised Version Now for long seasons Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law: GOD'S WORD® Translation For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest who taught [correctly], and without Moses' Teachings. Good News Translation For a long time Israel lived without the true God, without priests to teach them, and without a law. International Standard Version Israel lived for years without the true God, priests to teach them, and the Law, Majority Standard Bible For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law. NET Bible For a long time Israel had no true God, or priest to instruct them, or law. New Heart English Bible Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law. Webster's Bible Translation Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law. World English Bible Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionand many days [are] to Israel without [the] true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law, Young's Literal Translation and many days are to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law, Smith's Literal Translation And many days to Israel for not a God of truth, and for no priest teaching, and for no law. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd many days shall pass in Israel without the true God, and without a priest a teacher, and without the law. Catholic Public Domain Version Then many days will pass in Israel, apart from the true God, and apart from a learned priest, and apart from the law. New American Bible For a long time Israel was without a true God, without a priest-teacher, without instruction, New Revised Standard Version For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law; Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleNow for a long time Israel has not served their God in truth and has not accepted the teaching of their priests and would not obey their laws; therefore they were delivered into the hand of their enemies. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated For many Days Israel did not serve their God in the truth, and they did not receive from their Priests and they did not listen to their law, and they were handed over into the hand of enemies. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Now for long seasons Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law; Brenton Septuagint Translation And Israel has been a long time without the true God, and without a priest to expound the truth, and without the law. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Prophecy of Azariah…2So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you. 3For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law. 4But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought Him, and He was found by them.… Cross References Hosea 3:4 For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol. Judges 2:10-12 After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel. / And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals. / Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger, 1 Samuel 3:1 And the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. Now in those days the word of the LORD was rare, and visions were scarce. Amos 8:11-12 Behold, 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. / People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it. Jeremiah 2:13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water. 1 Kings 18:21 Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people did not answer a word. Deuteronomy 31:16-18 And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them. / On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’ / And on that day I will surely hide My face because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods. Isaiah 55:6 Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. Romans 1:21-23 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. / Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Ephesians 2:12 remember 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. 1 Corinthians 1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. John 4:22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Acts 17:23 For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you. Matthew 15:8-9 ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. / They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’” 2 Kings 17:33-34 They worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away. / To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel. Treasury of Scripture Now for a long season Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law. a long 1 Kings 12:28-33 Whereupon 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… Hosea 3:4 For 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: true God Jeremiah 10:10 But 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. John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 1 Thessalonians 1:9 For 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; a teaching 2 Chronicles 17:8,9 And 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… Leviticus 10:11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses. Deuteronomy 33:10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar. without law Romans 2:12 For 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; Romans 7:8,9 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead… 1 Corinthians 9:21 To 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. Jump to Previous Israel Law Priest Season Seasons Teach Teaching Time True.Jump to Next Israel Law Priest Season Seasons Teach Teaching Time True.2 Chronicles 15 1. Asa, with Judah and many of Israel, moved by the prophecy of Azariah, 12. make a solemn covenant with God 16. He puts down Maachah his grandmother for idolatry 18. He brings dedicated things into the house of God, and enjoys a long peace. For many years This phrase sets the stage for a period of spiritual decline and neglect in Israel's history. The Hebrew word for "years" (שָׁנִים, shanim) often signifies not just a passage of time but a significant era or epoch. Historically, this reflects the time during the Judges and early monarchy when Israel frequently turned away from God, leading to cycles of oppression and deliverance. It serves as a reminder of the consequences of prolonged spiritual neglect. Israel has been without the true God without a priest to instruct them and without the law Without.--L?l?', only here in this sense. The true God.--Jeremiah 10:9 : "Jehovah is true God" ('elohim 'emeth). Teaching priest.--Koh?n moreh. (See Leviticus 10:11; Deuteronomy 17:9; Deuteronomy 33:10; Deuteronomy 24:8; Ezekiel 44:23; Jeremiah 18:18; Malachi 2:6-7.) The priests instructed the people in the Torah, or divine Law (literally, teaching). . . . Verse 3. - Now for a long season. This translation is wrong; translate rather first, And many the days to Israel to not have true God, and to not have teaching priest, and to not have Law. So far no tense is limited, however naturally through the very drift of the passage it may seem that experience is being challenged, and so necessarily the past tense desiderated, not, however, in aorist shape, but in what some French grammarians call present perfect. For Azariah may well contemplate his illustration as good from long of old, to the very moment he was speaking. The unfortunate wealth of illustration to hand of his position may pardon the doubtfulness of commentators as to the source from which it may be supposed he would have drawn his most effective instances. It will not be the unlikeliest guide to follow the triple description of the alleged apostasy, misfortune, or iniquity "of Israel," e.g. (say) it happened to them to not have the true God; happened to them to not have teaching priest; happened to them to not have the Law (this meaning, to not have it authoritatively proclaimed, taught, ministered). When did these three things happen altogether most notoriously? They describe, not the transgressions of an individual king, but the state of the people and kingdom as a whole. If it were possible to conceive the description as a flagrant anachronism, a retrospective post-Captivity amplification, which the writer (in his glow of work and thought) was unconsciously and irresistibly betrayed into putting into the lips of the Prophet Azariah, all doubt would end; for the description would suit no state of things and no period better than that of the divided kingdoms, especially applying to the career of the separate kingdom of Israel. Our account, unfortunately, is unchecked just here by a parallel. It is, however, impossible to suppose this without any tittle of external authority for it, much less enough to proceed upon. Some so crave the illustration that they are prepared to suppose all the tenses of these verses present and future rather than past and "present perfect." But, in fact, no doubt the history of Israel since the death of Moses illustrated the language of Azariah passim to a degree beyond all "that is written" or that we know. And then we may certainly consider theft the expression chosen, "many days" (which some translate "many a day," "many a time "), even the word "years" not being employed, leaves it open to us to go to short episodes of an irreligious and disastrous character in the history of Israel. Lastly, the long stretch of fully three hundred years, extending throughout the Book of Judges (its last five chapters in right order or wrong)into the opening seven chapters of 1 Samuel, provides one running comment, superabundant almost to repetitiousness, for the illustration of our vers. 3-7; in many cases absolutely picking out the very colours to match (e.g. Judges 5:6; Judges 20:29, 31, compared with our ver. 5). To distinguish and separate the very numerous references that might be made is merely supererogatory, and spoils the unmatched mosaic work of the history (Judges 2:15, 18, 19; Judges 3:12-15; Judges 4:1-3; Judges 5:6, 19-21, 31: 6:1-5, 7-10; 9:32-37; 10:6-16; 11:19, 20; 12:5, 6; 17:5, 6, 13; 20:29, 31; 1 Samuel 2:30 -35; 1 Samuel 4:9-22; 1 Samuel 7:3, 8; 1 Samuel 13:19-22). It is a long-stretched-out history of a practically atheistic, priest-less, lawless life; divided into narratives of invasion, oppression, servitude (sevenfold, the Mesopotamian, Moabite, Canaanitish, Midianitish, Ammonitish, Philistine, and, it may be added, in order to comprehend all internal strife, Ishmaelitish larger and lesser, yet surprisingly general), smart, cry for help manifestly more the cry of pain and cowardice than of penitence and repentance, resolution and vow, and - for another trial and still another - of Divine pity, forbearance, and deliveranceParallel Commentaries ... Hebrew For manyרַבִּ֖ים (rab·bîm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 7227: Much, many, great years וְיָמִ֥ים (wə·yā·mîm) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 3117: A day Israel לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (lə·yiś·rā·’êl) Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc has been without לְלֹ֣א ׀ (lə·lō) Preposition-l | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no the true אֱמֶ֗ת (’ĕ·meṯ) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 571: Stability, certainty, truth, trustworthiness God, אֱלֹהֵ֣י (’ĕ·lō·hê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative without וּלְלֹ֛א (ū·lə·lō) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no a priest כֹּהֵ֥ן (kō·hên) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3548: Priest to instruct them, מוֹרֶ֖ה (mō·w·reh) Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 3384: To flow as water, to lay, throw, to point out, to teach and without וּלְלֹ֥א (ū·lə·lō) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no law. תוֹרָֽה׃ (ṯō·w·rāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law Links 2 Chronicles 15:3 NIV2 Chronicles 15:3 NLT 2 Chronicles 15:3 ESV 2 Chronicles 15:3 NASB 2 Chronicles 15:3 KJV 2 Chronicles 15:3 BibleApps.com 2 Chronicles 15:3 Biblia Paralela 2 Chronicles 15:3 Chinese Bible 2 Chronicles 15:3 French Bible 2 Chronicles 15:3 Catholic Bible OT History: 2 Chronicles 15:3 Now for a long season Israel was (2 Chron. 2Ch iiCh ii ch 2 chr 2chr) |
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