Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

and many days are to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,

New American Standard Bible

For many days Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without law.

King James Version

Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

Holman Bible

For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without instruction,

International Standard Version

"Listen to me, Asa, Judah, and Benjamin! The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will allow you to find him, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you. Israel lived for years without the true God, priests to teach them, and the Law,

A Conservative Version

Now for a long time Israel was without the TRUE God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

American Standard Version

Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:

Amplified

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest, and without [God’s] law.

Bible in Basic English

Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;

Darby Translation

Now for a long while Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law;

Julia Smith Translation

And many days to Israel for not a God of truth, and for no priest teaching, and for no law.

King James 2000

Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Now Israel [has been] without the true God many days, and without a teaching priest, and without law,

Modern King James verseion

And for a long time Israel had been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

There will come many days in Israel, in which there shall be no true God - nor priest that teacheth, nor any law.

NET Bible

For a long time Israel had no true God, or priest to instruct them, or law.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Now, many days, had Israel been, - without the faithful God, and without a teaching priest, and without the law;

Webster

Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

World English Bible

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
רב 
Rab 
Usage: 458

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

the true
אמת 
'emeth 
Usage: 127

God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

כּהן 
Kohen 
Usage: 750

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Asa's Religious Reforms

2 and he goeth out before Asa, and saith to him, 'Hear, me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; Jehovah is with you -- in your being with Him, and if ye seek Him, He is found of you, and if ye forsake Him, He forsaketh you; 3 and many days are to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law, 4 and it turneth back in its distress unto Jehovah, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found of them,


Cross References

Leviticus 10:11

and to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.'

1 Kings 12:28-33

And the king taketh counsel, and maketh two calves of gold, and saith unto them, 'Enough to you of going up to Jerusalem; lo, thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

Hosea 3:4

For many days remain do the sons of Israel without a king, and there is no prince, and there is no sacrifice, and there is no standing pillar, and there is no ephod and teraphim.

Deuteronomy 33:10

They teach Thy judgments to Jacob, And Thy law to Israel; They put perfume in Thy nose, And whole burnt-offering on Thine altar.

2 Chronicles 17:8-9

and with them the Levites, Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijath, and Tob-Adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.

Nehemiah 8:9

And Nehemiah -- he is the Tirshatha -- saith (and Ezra the priest, the scribe, and the Levites who are instructing the people) to all the people, 'To-day is holy to Jehovah your God, do not mourn, nor weep:' for all the people are weeping at their hearing the words of the law.

Jeremiah 10:10

And Jehovah is a God of truth, He is a living God, and a king age-during, From His wrath shake doth the earth, And nations endure not His indignation.

Ezekiel 44:21-23

And no priest doth drink wine in their coming in unto the inner court.

Micah 3:11

Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, 'Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.'

Malachi 2:7

For the lips of a priest preserve knowledge, And law they do seek from his mouth, For a messenger of Jehovah of Hosts he is.

Matthew 2:4-5

and having gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he was inquiring from them where the Christ is born.

John 17:3

and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;

Romans 2:12

for as many as without law did sin, without law also shall perish, and as many as did sin in law, through law shall be judged,

Romans 7:8-9

Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead.

1 Corinthians 9:21

to those without law, as without law -- (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) -- that I might gain those without law;

1 Thessalonians 1:9

for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,

1 Timothy 3:2

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

1 John 5:20

and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!

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