2 Chronicles 15:3New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “For many days Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without law.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Now for long seasons Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Now for a long while Israel [was] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law;
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Now, many days, had Israel been,—without the faithful God, and without a teaching priest, and without the law;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— and many days [are] to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— And many days shall pass in Israel, without the true God, and without a priest a teacher, and without the law.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Nowe for a long season Israel hath bene without the true God, and without Priest to teach and without Lawe.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Now for a long season Israel [hath bene] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— 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.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And Israel [has been] a long time without the true God, and without a priest to expound [the truth], and without the law.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Now for a long season Yisrael [hath been] without the true Elohim, and without a teaching priest, and without law. |
Now for a long
y7227 [7227] Standardרַבrab{rab}
By contraction from H7231; abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality).
season
3117 {3117} Primeיוֹםyowm{yome}
From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literally (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverbially).
x7227 (7227) Complementרַבrab{rab}
By contraction from H7231; abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality).
Yiŝrä´ël
יִשׂרָאֵל
3478 {3478} PrimeיִשְׂרָאֵלYisra'el{yis-raw-ale'}
From H8280 and H0410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity.
[ hath been] without
3808 {3808} Primeלֹאlo'{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
the true
571 {0571} Primeאֱמֶת'emeth{eh'-meth}
Contracted from H0539; stability; figuratively certainty, truth, trustworthiness.
´Élöhîm
אֱלֹהִים,
430 {0430} Primeאֱלֹהִים'elohiym{el-o-heem'}
Plural of H0433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative.
and without
x3808 (3808) Complementלֹאlo'{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
a teaching
3384 {3384} Primeיָרָהyarah{yaw-raw'}
A primitive root; properly to flow as water (that is, to rain); transitively to lay or throw (especially an arrow, that is, to shoot); figuratively to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach.
z8688 <8688> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Participle (See H8813) Count - 857
priest,
3548 {3548} Primeכֹּהֵןkohen{ko-hane'}
Active participle of H3547; literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman).
and without
x3808 (3808) Complementלֹאlo'{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
law.
8451 {8451} Primeתּוֹרָהtowrah{to-raw'}
From H3384; a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch. |
2 Chronicles 15:3-6
_ _ Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, etc. — Some think that Azariah was referring to the sad and disastrous condition to which superstition and idolatry had brought the neighboring kingdom of Israel. His words should rather be taken in a wider sense, for it seems manifest that the prophet had his eye upon many periods in the national history, when the people were in the state described — a state of spiritual destitution and ignorance — and exhibited its natural result as widespread anarchy, mutual dissension among the tribes, and general suffering (Judges 9:23; Judges 12:4; Judges 20:21; 2 Chronicles 13:17). These calamities God permitted to befall them as the punishment of their apostasy. Azariah’s object in these remarks was to establish the truth of his counsel (2 Chronicles 15:2), threatening, in case of neglecting it by describing the uniform course of the divine procedure towards Israel, as shown in all periods of their history. Then after this appeal to national experience, he concluded with an earnest exhortation to the king to prosecute the work of reformation so well begun [2 Chronicles 15:7]. |
2 Chronicles 15:3
Now Israel — They have long lived without the found knowledge and worship of the true God. Israel is here understood of the whole nation of Israel in former times, and especially in the times of the judges: for then many times they were in a great measure, without God and his law, and teaching priests, as plainly appears from the book of the Judges; they were brought to all the exigencies and calamities following; and they sometimes turned to the Lord, and he was found of them. |
2 Chronicles 15:3
Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the (b) true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
(b) For the space of twelve years under Rehoboam, and three years under Abijah, religion was neglected, and idolatry planted. |
- 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. ... So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, [even] in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
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:
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- 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;
1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
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- 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. ... And they taught in Judah, and [had] the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.
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.
Nehemiah 8:9 And Nehemiah, which [is] the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day [is] holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
Ezekiel 44:21-23 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. ... And they shall teach my people [the difference] between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
Micah 3:11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
Malachi 2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he [is] the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
Matthew 2:4-5 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. ... And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
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- 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. ... For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
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.
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