In the third year of his reign, Jehoshaphat sent his officials #– #Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah #– #to teach in the cities of Judah.
2 Chronicles 15:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without instruction, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law. American Standard Version (1901) Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law: Common English Bible For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach them, and without the Instruction. Catholic Public Domain Version Then many days will pass in Israel, apart from the true God, and apart from a learned priest, and apart from the law. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And many days shall pass in Israel, without the true God, and without a priest a teacher, and without the law. |
In the third year of his reign, Jehoshaphat sent his officials #– #Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah #– #to teach in the cities of Judah.
Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing 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.
But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at his wrath, and the nations cannot endure his fury.
Zion’s gates have fallen to the ground; he has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates. Her king and her leaders live among the nations, instruction is no more, and even her prophets receive no vision from the Lord.
For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols.
and teach the Israelites all the statutes that the Lord has given to them through Moses.’
Look, the days are coming – this is the declaration of the Lord God – when I will send a famine through the land: not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.
Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practise divination for silver. Yet they lean on the Lord, saying, ‘Isn’t the Lord among us? No disaster will overtake us.’
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should desire instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of Armies.
This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and the one you have sent #– #Jesus Christ.
For all who sin without the law will also perish without the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
To those who are without the law, like one without the law #– #though I am not without God’s law but under the law of Christ #– #to win those without the law.
They will teach your ordinances to Jacob and your instruction to Israel; they will set incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
for they themselves report what kind of reception we had from you: how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
An overseer, therefore, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true one. We are in the true one #– #that is, in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.