2 Chronicles 15:3

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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.

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    4For the children of Israel will live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols.

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  • 2 Chr 15:4-5
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    4But in their trouble, they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, sought Him, and He was found by them.

    5In those days, there was no peace for those who went out or those who came in, but great unrest troubled all the inhabitants of the lands.

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    2He 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.'

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    6With their flocks and herds they will go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

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    1Hear the word of the LORD, O people of Israel! For the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: there is no truth, no steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land.

  • Jer 16:11
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    11Then you are to answer them: 'It is because your ancestors abandoned Me,' declares the LORD, 'and followed other gods, served them, and worshiped them. But they abandoned Me and did not keep My law.

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    13Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and went after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

  • 2 Kgs 17:34
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    34To this day they continue to practice their former customs. They neither fear the Lord nor follow the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the Lord gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.

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    1The young boy Samuel was serving the Lord under Eli. In those days the word of the Lord was rare; visions were not widespread.

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    6In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

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    1Samaria will be found guilty, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their infants will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.

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    3Now they will say, 'We have no king, for we did not fear the LORD. And as for the king, what could he do for us?

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    3They said, 'Why, LORD, God of Israel, has this happened in Israel, that one tribe is missing today?'

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    8The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds rebelled against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed worthless things.

  • Jer 3:21
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    21A voice is heard on the barren heights: the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the LORD their God.

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    7This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods.

    8They followed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites, as well as the practices of the kings of Israel that they themselves had introduced.

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    5For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the Lord of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

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    1When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he became strong, he abandoned the law of the LORD, and all Israel followed him.

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    5This is what the LORD says: ‘What fault did your ancestors find in me that they strayed so far from me? They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

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    27And the Israelites inquired of the LORD (the Ark of the Covenant of God was there in those days),

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    9Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the descendants of Aaron, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of what are not gods.

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    2They cry out to me, 'My God, we know you, O Israel!'

    3Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him.

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    6And I will remove those who turn back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.

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    18So the Lord became very angry with Israel and removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah was left.

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  • Hos 4:6
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    6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

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    13For because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, since we did not seek Him according to the proper procedure."

  • 2 Kgs 17:23
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    23Finally, the Lord removed Israel from His presence as He had declared through all His servants the prophets. So the Israelites were exiled from their own land to Assyria, and they remain there to this day.

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    10Israel’s arrogance testifies against him, yet they do not return to the LORD their God or seek him in all this.

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    27Then the king of Assyria gave this order: 'Send back one of the priests you took captive from Samaria. Let him live there and teach the people the customs of the God of the land.'

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    28For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

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    17Then Micaiah said, 'I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, “These people have no master; each one should go home in peace.”'

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    25In those days, there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in their own eyes.

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    10After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation arose after them who did not know the LORD or the works he had done for Israel.

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    7But a man of God came to him and said, 'O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the people of Ephraim.'

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    25Did you bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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    13The Lord says: 'These people come near to me with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their reverence for me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.'

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    26Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, bringing upon it every curse written in this book.

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    3The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the early ways of his ancestor David and did not seek after the Baals.

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    15They despised His statutes, His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His warnings He gave them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. They imitated the nations around them, though the Lord had commanded them not to do so.