Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
Now for a long {H7227} season {H3117} Israel {H3478} hath been without {H3808} the true {H571} God {H430}, and without a teaching {H3384} priest {H3548}, and without law {H8451}.
For a long time Isra'el was without the true God, without a cohen who could teach, and without Torah.
For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law.
Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:
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Nehemiah 8:9
¶ And Nehemiah, which [is] the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day [is] holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. -
Leviticus 10:11
And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses. -
2 Chronicles 17:8
And with them [he sent] Levites, [even] Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests. -
2 Chronicles 17:9
And they taught in Judah, and [had] the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people. -
Matthew 2:4
And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. -
Matthew 2:5
And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, -
Hosea 3:4
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and [without] teraphim: