2 Chronicles 13:8-9
New King James Version
8 And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the Lord, which is in the hand of the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, and with you are the gold calves which Jeroboam (A)made for you as gods. 9 (B)Have you not cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made for yourselves priests, like the peoples of other lands, (C)so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may be a priest of (D)things that are not gods?
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2 Chronicles 15:3
New King James Version
3 (A)For a long time Israel has been without the true God, without a (B)teaching priest, and without (C)law;
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Malachi 3:13-15
New King James Version
The People Complain Harshly
13 “Your(A) words have been [a]harsh against Me,”
Says the Lord,
“Yet you say,
‘What have we spoken against You?’
14 (B)You have said,
‘It is useless to serve God;
What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance,
And that we have walked as mourners
Before the Lord of hosts?
15 So now (C)we call the proud blessed,
For those who do wickedness are [b]raised up;
They even (D)tempt God and go free.’ ”
Footnotes
- Malachi 3:13 Lit. strong
- Malachi 3:15 Lit. built
Jeremiah 5:30-31
New King James Version
30 “An astonishing and (A)horrible thing
Has been committed in the land:
31 The prophets prophesy (B)falsely,
And the priests rule by their own power;
And My people (C)love to have it so.
But what will you do in the end?
Isaiah 51:17-23
New King James Version
God’s Fury Removed
17 (A)Awake, awake!
Stand up, O Jerusalem,
You who (B)have drunk at the hand of the Lord
The cup of His fury;
You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling,
And drained it out.
18 There is no one to guide her
Among all the sons she has brought forth;
Nor is there any who takes her by the hand
Among all the sons she has brought up.
19 (C)These two things have come to you;
Who will be sorry for you?—
Desolation and destruction, famine and sword—
(D)By whom will I comfort you?
20 (E)Your sons have fainted,
They lie at the head of all the streets,
Like an antelope in a net;
They are full of the fury of the Lord,
The rebuke of your God.
21 Therefore please hear this, you afflicted,
And drunk (F)but not with wine.
22 Thus says your Lord,
The Lord and your God,
Who (G)pleads the cause of His people:
“See, I have taken out of your hand
The cup of trembling,
The dregs of the cup of My fury;
You shall no longer drink it.
23 (H)But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,
Who have said to [a]you,
‘Lie down, that we may walk over you.’
And you have laid your body like the ground,
And as the street, for those who walk over.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 51:23 Lit. your soul
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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