2 Chronicles 15:3 Cross References - ACV

³ Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

¹¹ and that ye may teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which LORD has spoken to them by Moses.

¹⁰ They shall teach Jacob thine ordinances, and Israel thy law. They shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt offering upon thine altar.

²⁸ Whereupon 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. Behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. ²⁹ And he set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. ³⁰ And this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one, even to Dan. ³¹ And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people who were not of the sons of Levi. ³² And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made. ³³ And he went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart. And he ordained a feast for the sons of Israel, and went up to the altar to burn incense.

⁸ and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests. ⁹ And they taught in Judah, having the book of the law of LORD with them. And they went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught among the people.

⁹ And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to LORD your God; do not mourn nor weep. For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.

¹⁰ But 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.

²¹ Neither shall any of the priests drink wine when they enter into the inner court. ²² Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away, but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. ²³ And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

⁴ For the sons of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without ruler, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim.

¹¹ The heads of it judge for a bribe, and the priests of it teach for a wage, and the prophets of it divine for money. Yet they lean upon LORD, and say, Is not LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.

⁷ For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth. For he is the messenger of LORD of hosts.

⁴ And having gathered together all the chief priests and scholars of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ is born. ⁵ And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judea. For thus it is written through the prophet,

³ And this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou sent.

¹² For as many as have sinned without law will also be destroyed without law, and as many as have sinned in law will be judged by law.

⁸ But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me every evil desire, for apart from law sin is dead. ⁹ And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

²¹ to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ), so that I might gain men without law.

⁹ For they report about us what kind of entrance we had with you, and how ye turned to God from the idols to serve a living and true God,

² The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach,

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God comes, and has given us understanding, so that we may know the true. And we are in the true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and the eternal life.