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2 Chronicles 36:16
2 Chronicles 36:16 is verse 16 of 2 Chronicles chapter 36, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
King James Version
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
World English Bible
but they mocked the messengers of God, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
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2 Chronicles 36:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
14 Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
15 Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.
16 But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
17 So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,
18 who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials.
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Cross-references
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2 Chronicles 30:10And the couriers traveled from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun; but the people scorned and mocked them.
Psalms 35:16Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
Isaiah 28:22So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.
Jeremiah 5:12They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
Jeremiah 5:13The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”
Jeremiah 20:7You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
Luke 18:32He will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon.
Luke 22:63The men who were holding Jesus began to mock Him and beat Him.
Luke 22:64They blindfolded Him and kept demanding, “Prophesy! Who hit You?”
Luke 23:11And even Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked Him. Dressing Him in a fine robe, they sent Him back to Pilate.
Luke 23:36The soldiers also mocked Him and came up to offer Him sour wine.
Acts 2:13But others mocked them and said, “They are drunk on new wine!”
Acts 17:32When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”
Hebrews 11:36Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
Proverbs 1:24Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
Proverbs 1:25because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
Proverbs 1:26in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,
Proverbs 1:27when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
Proverbs 1:28Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
Proverbs 1:29For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
Proverbs 1:30They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.
Acts 13:41‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”
1 Thessalonians 4:8Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
Jeremiah 32:3For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying: “Why are you prophesying like this? You claim that the LORD says, ‘Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.
Jeremiah 38:6So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
Matthew 5:12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
Matthew 21:33Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
Matthew 21:34When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.
Matthew 21:35But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
Matthew 21:36Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group. But the tenants did the same to them.
Matthew 21:37Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
Matthew 21:38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’
Matthew 21:39So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
Matthew 21:40Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those tenants?”
Matthew 21:41“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”
Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
Psalms 74:1Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
Psalms 79:1The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
Psalms 79:2They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.
Psalms 79:3They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.
Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
Psalms 79:5How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
Proverbs 6:15Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.
Proverbs 29:1A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.