but they mocked the messengers of God, and 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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but they mocked the messengers of God, and 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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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.
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but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till there was no remedy.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 36:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 5:12-13 They have denied Yahweh, and said, “It is not he. Evil will won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine. The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”
- 2 Chronicles 30:10 So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.
- Luke 22:63-64 The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him. Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?”
- Psalms 74:1 God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
- Proverbs 6:15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
- Jeremiah 32:3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says, “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;
- 1 Thessalonians 4:8 Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
- Ezra 5:12 But after our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
- Psalms 35:16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
- Proverbs 1:24-31 Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention; but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof; I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you, when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you. Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me; because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh. They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof. Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.
- Proverbs 29:1 He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
- Matthew 21:33-41 “Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country. When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit. The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way. But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’ So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?” They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”
- Psalms 79:1-5 God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth. They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them. We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us. How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
- Isaiah 28:22 Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.
- Jeremiah 20:7 Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.
- Jeremiah 38:6 Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
- Matthew 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
- Luke 16:14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
- Luke 18:32 For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.
- Luke 23:11 Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
- Luke 23:36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,
- Acts 2:13 Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”
- Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
- Acts 13:41 ‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’ ”
- Acts 17:32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
- Hebrews 11:36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Till God could no longer suffer their sins, but…
Till God could no longer suffer their sins, but must needs punish them.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God,…
2Ch 36:16 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.
Ver. 16. But they mocked the messengers of God.] Yea, misused them, murdered them. See 2Ch 30:10 Mat 21:34-36.
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Until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people.] Desperate sinners procure implacable wrath, irrevocable decrees, exterminating judgments. Men’s sins put thunderbolts into God’s hands, who may well say, Non nisi coactus, Not till needs must: "fury is not in me." As a woman bringeth not forth without pain, a bee stingeth not till provoked, so neither doth God proceed to punish till there be no remedy.
Till there was no remedy.] Heb., No healing. They would have no healing, and now they can have none though they would. Cantharides and scorpions are said to carry about them a remedy for their own poison; at ipsi peccato sua inest poena et supplicium; but so doth not sin, for it is sure of punishment, when once it hateth to be healed especially. Nowhere else in Scripture but here, and Pro 29:1, is it said "there is no remedy"; and it is fearful. What can we of this nation expect but an utter extermination for our notorious obstinacy? See the sentence, and tremble at it. {Eze 24:13-14} Josephus reporteth that in his time his countrymen the Jews were grown so desperately wicked, that if the Romans had not destroyed them, without doubt either the earth would have swallowed them up, or fire from heaven have consumed them.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain They mocked the messengers of God; of which see…
They mocked the messengers of God; of which see instances, Eze 11:3; 20:49.
Misused his prophets; imprisoning and persecuting them, as they did Jeremiah. Or, seduced themselves by his prophets, i.e. by their prophecies, which they perverted or misconstrued. An eminent instance we have in this, that because Jeremiah prophesied that Zedekiah should be led to Babylon, Jer 32:5, and Ezekiel, that he should not see Babylon, Eze 12:13, therefore they believed neither, as the Hebrew writers relate.
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Till there was no remedy; because the people would not repent, and God would not pardon them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Therefore he brought upon them the king of the…
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees,.... Nebuchadnezzar; and though it was the rebellion of Zedekiah which was the cause and occasion of his coming against them, yet it was the Lord that moved him to it, and gave him success:
who slew their young men with the sword, in the house of the sanctuary; in the temple, where they took sanctuary, imagining that sacred place would protect them from the rage of the enemy, but it did not:
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and had no compassion on young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age; spared none on account of age or sex, but put them all to the sword, or carried them captive:
he gave them into his hand; that is, the Lord delivered them into the hand of the king of Babylon, for their sins.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain No remedy - Because the people would not repent,…
No remedy - Because the people would not repent, and God would not pardon them.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ch 36:16. But they mocked the messengers of God…
2Ch 36:16. But they mocked the messengers of God — Of which see instances Eze 11:3; Eze 20:49. Misused his prophets — Imprisoning and persecuting them as they did Jeremiah; or, seduced themselves by his prophets; that is, by the prophecies of his prophets, which they perverted, or misconstrued. An eminent instance of which we have in this, that because Jeremiah prophesied that Zedekiah should be led to Babylon, (Jer 32:5,) and Ezekiel, that he should not see Babylon, (Eze 12:13,) and therefore they believed neither, as the Hebrew writers relate. Till there was no remedy — Because the people would not repent, and God would not pardon them without repentance.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Misused his prophets - Rather, “scoffed at his prophets.”…
Misused his prophets - Rather, “scoffed at his prophets.” The allusion is to verbal mockery, not to persecution.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Remedy. All attempts to convert them proved in vain;…
Remedy. All attempts to convert them proved in vain; (T.) and God, perceiving that they even despised his calls, became inexorable. C.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. mocked the messengers] Jeremiah was imprisoned, beaten, and…
16. mocked the messengers] Jeremiah was imprisoned, beaten, and threatened with death, Urijah (Jer_26:20-23) was put to death. Of the fate of Habakkuk (who also lived during the Chaldean period, Hab_1:6) nothing is known.
misused his prophets] R.V. scoffed at his prophets.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) But they mocked.—And they were mocking, mal’îbîm; only…
(16) But they mocked.—And they were mocking, mal’îbîm; only here (an Aramaism).
Misused.—Mitta’te’îm, only here. Derided, strictly, stammered. Another form of this verb occurs in Gen_27:12. (Comp. for the fact Isa_28:9-14; Ezekiel 33, 30; Jer_17:15; Jer_20:7-8.)
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Till there was no remedy.—Healing; i.e., deliverance, σωτηρία (comp. 2Ch_21:18). God is said to heal, when he averts calamity (2Ch_30:20).
The wrath . . . arose.—Went up (‘âlâh), like smoke (Psa_18:8; 2Sa_11:20).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain No remedy. (comp. our 2Ch_21:18; Pro_6:15 Pro_29:1; Jer_8:15 Jer_14:19…
No remedy. (comp. our 2Ch_21:18; Pro_6:15 Pro_29:1; Jer_8:15 Jer_14:19 Jer_33:6; Mal_4:2)
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