SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:3
Muchos días ha estado Israel sin verdadero Dios, y sin sacerdote, y sin enseñador, y sin ley;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:3
Verse 3. Now for a long season Israel] "Israel hath followed Jeroboam, and they have not worshipped the true God. They have burnt incense to their golden calves; their priestlings [ ayrmwk cumeraiya, their black, sooty sacrificers] have burnt perfumes with a strange worship, and have not exercised themselves in the law." -Targum. These priests could not teach, because they had not learnt; and as they had abandoned the law of the Lord, consequently they had no proper matter for instruction. There is a great diversity of opinions concerning the meaning of this text.
Some consider it a prophecy relative to the future state of this people, and the final destruction of the Jews as to their political existence: others consider it as referring to the state of the people under the reigns of Rehoboam and Abijah, which were happily changed under that of Asa; and this appears to me to be the most natural sense of the words.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 3. Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the true God , etc.] The fear, worship, and service of him being greatly neglected by them for a long time; what period of time is referred to is not expressed, whether past, present, or to come, but left to be supplied; the Targum refers this to the time of the separation of the ten tribes, and the days of Jeroboam, when the calves were worshipped, and not the true God, and the teaching priests of the Lord were cast out, and the law of the Lord, especially with respect to worship, was not regarded, in which it is followed by many interpreters; others think it refers to time to come, and to what would be the case, should they forsake the Lord; and was fulfilled in the Babylonish captivity, (see Hosea 3:4) and the Jews say, that “Oded prophesied that the days should come, when Israel would be “without the true God”, since judgment should not be done in the world: and “without a teaching priest”; since the high priesthood should cease, ((see Hebrews 7:12)) “and without the law”; since the sanhedrim should cease;” but according to our supplement, and which seems most correct, it refers to time past; not to the case of the ten tribes from the times of Jeroboam; nor to the case of Judah from the times of Rehoboam; but to times more remote, even the times of the judges, when they worshipped Baal and Ashtaroth, and not the true God, ( Judges 2:10,11), yet at the same time suggesting, that should the present inhabitants of Judah go into the same practices, their case would be like theirs, described in the following verses: and without a teaching priest : as they were under the judges, from the times of Phinehas to those of Eli, which was a long space of time: and without law ; every man doing as he pleased, there being no king in Israel, nor any regard paid to the law of God, moral or ceremonial, ( Judges 17:6).
Matthew Henry Commentary
The people make a solemn covenant with God.
--The work of complete reformation appeared so difficult, that Asa ha not courage to attempt it, till assured of Divine assistance an acceptance. He and his people offered sacrifices to God; thanksgivin for the favours they had received, and supplication for furthe favours. Prayers and praises are now our spiritual sacrifices. The people, of their own will, covenanted to seek the Lord, each for himself, with earnestness. What is religion but seeking God, inquirin after him, applying to him upon all occasions? We make nothing of ou religion, if we do not make heart-work of it; God will have all the heart, or none. Our devotedness to God our Saviour, should be avowe and shown in the most solemn and public manner. What is done in hypocrisy is a mere drudgery __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
וימים 3117 רבים 7227 לישׂראל 3478 ללא 3808 אלהי 430 אמת 571 וללא 3808 כהן 3548 מורה 3384 וללא 3808 תורה׃ 8451
