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2 Chronicles 15:3
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For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without instruction,
Now for a long season Yisra'el was without the true God, and without a teaching Kohen, and without law:
Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law,
For a long time Israel was without the true God and without a priest to teach them and without the teachings.
For a long time Israel had no true God, or priest to instruct them, or law.
"Now for a long time Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest, and without [God's] law.
"For many days Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without the Law.
Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:
Nowe for a long season Israel hath bene without the true God, and without Priest to teach and without Lawe.
Now for many days Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without law.
For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without law.
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.
For a long time Isra'el was without the true God, without a cohen who could teach, and without Torah.
Now for a long while Israel [was] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law;
For a long time Israel was without the true God. And they were without a teaching priest, and without the law.
Now 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.
For a long time Israel lived without the true God, without priests to teach them, and without a law.
Now Israel has been without the true God many days, and without a teaching priest, and without law,
Yea, Israel has been without a true God many days, and without a teaching priest, and without Law.
Neuertheles there shal be many dayes in Israel, that there shalbe no true God, no prest to teach, & no lawe.
Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:
Nowe for a long season Israel hath ben without the true God, and without priestes to teache, and without law.
Now for long seasons Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law;
Now for a long season Israel hath bene without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
And Israel has been a long time without the true God, and without a priest to expound the truth, and without the law.
Now for long seasons Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:
Forsothe many daies schulen passe in Israel with outen veri God, and without preest, and without techere, and without lawe.
Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:
Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
For a long time Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law;
For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach them, and without the Law to instruct them.
For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching religious leader, and without law.
For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law;
Now, many days, had Israel been, - without the faithful God, and without a teaching priest, and without the law;
And many days shall pass in Israel, without the true God, and without a priest a teacher, and without the law.
For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law;
and many days [are] to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,
"For many days Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without law.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
a long: 1 Kings 12:28-33, Hosea 3:4
true God: Jeremiah 10:10, John 17:3, 1 Thessalonians 1:9, 1 John 5:20
a teaching: 2 Chronicles 17:8, 2 Chronicles 17:9, Leviticus 10:11, Deuteronomy 33:10, Nehemiah 8:9, Ezekiel 44:21-23, Micah 3:11, Malachi 2:7, Matthew 2:4, Matthew 2:5, 1 Timothy 3:2
without law: Romans 2:12, Romans 7:8, Romans 7:9, 1 Corinthians 9:21
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 17:7 - to teach 2 Chronicles 30:22 - taught Lamentations 2:9 - the law Hosea 4:6 - for Ephesians 2:12 - without Ephesians 4:11 - pastors
Cross-References
And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:
And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.
And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far as Dan.
Hope put off is a weariness to the heart; but when what is desired comes, it is a tree of life.
If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.
A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.
I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.
You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the true God,.... The fear, worship, and service of him being greatly neglected by them for a long time; what period of time is referred to is not expressed, whether past, present, or to come, but left to be supplied; the Targum refers this to the time of the separation of the ten tribes, and the days of Jeroboam, when the calves were worshipped, and not the true God, and the teaching priests of the Lord were cast out, and the law of the Lord, especially with respect to worship, was not regarded, in which it is followed by many interpreters; others think it refers to time to come, and to what would be the case, should they forsake the Lord; and was fulfilled in the Babylonish captivity, see Hosea 3:4 and the Jews k say, that
"Oded prophesied that the days should come, when Israel would be "without the true God", since judgment should not be done in the world: and "without a teaching priest"; since the high priesthood should cease, (see Hebrews 7:12) "and without the law"; since the sanhedrim should cease;''
but according to our supplement, and which seems most correct, it refers to time past; not to the case of the ten tribes from the times of Jeroboam; nor to the case of Judah from the times of Rehoboam; but to times more remote, even the times of the judges, when they worshipped Baal and Ashtaroth, and not the true God, Judges 2:10, yet at the same time suggesting, that should the present inhabitants of Judah go into the same practices, their case would be like theirs, described in the following verses:
and without a teaching priest: as they were under the judges, from the times of Phinehas to those of Eli, which was a long space of time:
and without law; every man doing as he pleased, there being no king in Israel, nor any regard paid to the law of God, moral or ceremonial, Judges 17:6.
k Vajikra Rabba, sect. 19. fol. 160. 4.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
“Israel” here is used generally for the whole people of God; and the reference is especially to the many apostasies in the days of the Judges, which were followed by repentance and deliverance.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Chronicles 15:3. Now for a long season Israel — "Israel hath followed Jeroboam, and they have not worshipped the true God. They have burnt incense to their golden calves; their priestlings [כומריא cumeraiya, their black, sooty sacrificers] have burnt perfumes with a strange worship, and have not exercised themselves in the law." - Targum. These priests could not teach, because they had not learnt; and as they had abandoned the law of the Lord, consequently they had no proper matter for instruction.
There is a great diversity of opinions concerning the meaning of this text. Some consider it a prophecy relative to the future state of this people, and the final destruction of the Jews as to their political existence: others consider it as referring to the state of the people under the reigns of Rehoboam and Abijah, which were happily changed under that of Asa; and this appears to me to be the most natural sense of the words.
