2 Chronicles 15:3

Long season. Verse 3 literally translated reads, “And many days to Israel without the true God and without teaching priest and without law.” The passage contains no verb; hence the determination of tense is a matter of interpretation. There is great difference of opinion as to whether this section is a prophecy of the future history of Israel, or whether it is a survey of general Israelitic history of the past, or whether it has specific application to the immediate present, that is, the period since the disruption of the kingdom. The observation of the prophet is true of any of these periods. Compare the apostasies in the time of the judges (Judges 2:11-19; 3:7-10, 12-14; 4:1-3; 6:1-6; 8:33-35; 10:6-9).

Teaching priest. The priests were the religious instructors of the people, teaching them the word of God and the law of the Lord (see Lev. 10:11; Deut. 17:9, 11; 24:8; 33:10; Ezra 7:25; Jer. 18:18; Eze. 44:23).