2 Chronicles 36:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord against his people became so great that there was no remedy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ But they kept mocking the messengers of God and despising His words and scoffing at His prophets till the wrath of the Lord rose against His people, till there was no remedy or healing.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Jehovah arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ But they made fun of God’s messengers, treating God’s words with contempt and ridiculing God’s prophets to such an extent that there was no hope of warding off the LORD’s rising anger against his people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ But they ridiculed the messengers of God, and they gave little weight to his words, and they mocked the prophets, until the fury of the Lord ascended against his people, and there was no remedy.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy.

2 Chronicles 36:16 Cross References

2 Kings 2:23

He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go away, baldhead! Go away, baldhead!”

1 Chronicles 19:4

So Hanun seized David’s servants, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle at their waists, and sent them away,

2 Chronicles 24:19

Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the Lord; they testified against them, but they would not listen.

2 Chronicles 30:10

So the couriers went from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.

Ezra 5:12

But because our ancestors had angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.

Nehemiah 9:26

“Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their backs and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.

Nehemiah 9:30

Many years you were patient with them and warned them by your spirit through your prophets, yet they would not listen. Therefore you handed them over to the peoples of the lands.

Psalm 35:16

they impiously mocked more and more, gnashing at me with their teeth.

Psalm 74:1

O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

Proverbs 29:1

One who is often reproved, yet remains stubborn, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

Proverbs 6:15

on such a one calamity will descend suddenly, in a moment, damage beyond repair.

Isaiah 28:22

Now therefore do not scoff, or your bonds will be made stronger, for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts upon the whole land.

Isaiah 5:4

What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? When I expected it to yield grapes, why did it yield rotten grapes?

Isaiah 57:4

Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit—

Isaiah 65:12

I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter; because, when I called, you did not answer, when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my sight and chose what I did not delight in.

Jeremiah 13:10

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own will and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing.

Jeremiah 20:7

O Lord, you have enticed me, and I was enticed; you have overpowered me, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

Jeremiah 20:8

For whenever I speak, I must cry out; I must shout, “Violence and destruction!” For the word of the Lord has become for me a reproach and derision all day long.

Jeremiah 30:12

For thus says the Lord: Your hurt is incurable; your wound is grievous.

Jeremiah 32:3

where King Zedekiah of Judah had confined him. Zedekiah had said, “Why do you prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord: I am going to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

Jeremiah 32:33

They have turned their backs to me, not their faces; though I have taught them persistently, they would not listen and accept correction.

Jeremiah 38:6

So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

Jeremiah 42:18

“For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Just as my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You shall become an object of execration and horror, of cursing and ridicule. You shall see this place no more.

Daniel 9:6

We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our ancestors, and to all the people of the land.

Leviticus 26:15

if you spurn my statutes and abhor my ordinances, so that you will not observe all my commandments and you break my covenant,

Matthew 23:34

For this reason I send you prophets, sages, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,

Matthew 5:12

Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they ridiculed him.

Luke 18:32

For he will be handed over to the gentiles, and he will be mocked and insulted and spat upon.

Luke 23:11

Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him; then he put an elegant robe on him and sent him back to Pilate.

Luke 23:36

The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine

Luke 6:23

Rejoice on that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven, for that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.

Acts 13:41

‘Look, you scoffers! Be amazed and perish, for in your days I am doing a work, a work that you will never believe, even if someone tells you.’ ”

Acts 17:32

When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some scoffed, but others said, “We will hear you again about this.”

Acts 2:13

But others sneered and said, “They are filled with new wine.”

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.

1 Thessalonians 4:8

Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not human authority but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.

Hebrews 11:36

Others suffered mocking and flogging and even chains and imprisonment.

Judges 2:17

Yet they did not listen even to their judges, for they lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their ancestors had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord; they did not follow their example.