Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben-Chayil, and `Ovadyah 1, and Zekharyah, and Netan'el 1, and Mikhayahu, to teach in the cities of Yehudah;
Nechemyah, who was the governor, and Ezra the Kohen the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the LORD your God; don't mourn, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
For the children of Yisra'el shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without efod or idols.
Behold, the days come,* says the Lord GOD, *that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her Kohanim teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on the LORD, and say, *Isn't the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.*
to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Messiah), that I might win those who are without law.
For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Yeshua the Messiah. This is the true God, and eternal life.