Verse 3

For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without the law.

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  • Lev 10:11 : 11 You must teach the Israelites all the statutes that the LORD has given to them through Moses.'
  • 1 Kgs 12:28-33 : 28 After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt. 29 He set up one in Bethel, and the other in Dan. 30 And this thing became a sin; the people came to worship the one at Bethel and went as far as Dan to worship the other. 31 Jeroboam also built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites. 32 He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. He did this in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves he had made. And there at Bethel he installed priests for the high places he had made. 33 On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, he offered sacrifices on the altar he had built at Bethel. So he instituted the festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.
  • Hos 3:4 : 4 For the children of Israel will live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols.
  • Mic 3:11 : 11 Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for silver. Yet they lean on the LORD, saying, 'Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us.'
  • Mal 2:7 : 7 For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts.
  • Matt 2:4-5 : 4 He called together all the chief priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Christ was to be born. 5 They replied, 'In Bethlehem of Judea, because this is what was written by the prophet:
  • John 17:3 : 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
  • Rom 2:12 : 12 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
  • Rom 7:8-9 : 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9 At one time I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life and I died.
  • 1 Cor 9:21 : 21 To those without the law, I became like one without the law (not being without God’s law but under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.
  • 1 Thess 1:9 : 9 For they themselves tell about how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.
  • 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 Therefore, an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 We also 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.
  • 2 Chr 17:8-9 : 8 With them were the Levites—Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-Adonijah—along with the priests Elishama and Jehoram. 9 They taught in Judah, taking with them the Book of the Law of the LORD. They went around to all the cities of Judah and instructed the people.
  • Neh 8:9 : 9 Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught 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.
  • Jer 10:10 : 10 But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God, the eternal King. When He is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure His wrath.
  • Ezek 44:21-23 : 21 No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner court. 22 They must not marry widows or divorced women, but only virgins of Israelite descent or widows who were married to priests. 23 They are to teach My people the difference between what is holy and what is common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.
  • Deut 33:10 : 10 They will teach Your judgments to Jacob and Your law to Israel; they will offer incense before You and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.