2 Chronicles 15:1-3

Now the Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded,

and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you when you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you abandon Him, He will abandon you.

For many days Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without the Law.