2 Chronicles 15:3

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2 Chronicles 15:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Now the Spirit of God came upon Azariah son of Oded.

2 So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

3 For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law.

4 But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought Him, and He was found by them.

5 In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.

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1 Kings 12:28

After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 12:29

One calf he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.

1 Kings 12:30

And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.

1 Kings 12:31

Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.

1 Kings 12:32

And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.

1 Kings 12:33

On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.

Jeremiah 10:10

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 indignation.

John 17:3

Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

2 Chronicles 17:8

accompanied by certain Levites—Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah—along with the priests Elishama and Jehoram.

2 Chronicles 17:9

They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the Book of the Law of the LORD. They went throughout the towns of Judah and taught the people.

Leviticus 10:11

so that you may teach the Israelites all the statutes that the LORD has given them through Moses.”

Deuteronomy 33:10

He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob and Your law to Israel; he will set incense before You and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.

Nehemiah 8:9

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.

Ezekiel 44:21

No priest may drink wine before he enters the inner court.

Ezekiel 44:22

And they shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but must marry a virgin of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow of a priest.

Ezekiel 44:23

They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.

Micah 3:11

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”

Malachi 2:7

For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.

Matthew 2:4

And when he had assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.

Matthew 2:5

“In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:

1 Timothy 3:2

An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Romans 2:12

All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.

Romans 7:8

But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Romans 7:9

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

1 Corinthians 9:21

To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.