2 Chronicles 15:3

Azariah recalls long periods when Israel lived without the true God, without teaching priest or law. Spiritual neglect leaves a people lost and unguided.

Cross-references · 18

• Neh 8:9Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, “Today is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.
• Lev 10:11You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”
• 2 Chr 17:8–9and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.
• Jer 10:10But Yahweh 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 withstand his indignation.
• Ezek 44:21–23Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
• Hos 3:4For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
• Mal 2:7For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.
• Mic 3:11Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”
• Matt 2:4–5Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.
• Rom 2:12For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
• 1 Kgs 12:28–33So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
• Deut 33:10They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law. They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering on your altar.
• John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
• 1 Tim 3:2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
• 1 Jn 5:20We 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 Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• Rom 7:8–9But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
• 1 Cor 9:21to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
• 1 Th 1:9For 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,

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