Nehemiah 2:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they mocked and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

Cross References

Nehemiah 6:6

In it was written, “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem also says it—that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall; and according to this report you wish to become their king.

Mark 5:40

And they laughed at him. Then he put them all outside and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was.

Hebrews 11:36

Others suffered mocking and flogging and even chains and imprisonment.

Acts 24:5

We have, in fact, found this man a pestilent fellow, an agitator among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

John 19:12

From then on Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. Everyone who claims to be a king sets himself against Caesar.”

Luke 23:2

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man inciting our nation, forbidding us to pay taxes to Caesar and saying that he himself is the Messiah, a king.”

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.

Psalm 80:6

You make us the scorn of our neighbors; our enemies laugh among themselves.

Psalm 79:4

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.

Job 30:1

“But now they make sport of me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

Nehemiah 6:9

for they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.

Nehemiah 4:1

Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he mocked the Jews.

Nehemiah 2:10

When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the Israelites.

Matthew 9:24

he said, “Go away, for the girl is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at him.

Nehemiah 13:28

And one of the sons of Jehoiada, son of the high priest Eliashib, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite; I chased him away from me.

Psalm 123:4

Our soul has had more than its fill of the scorn of those who are at ease, of the contempt of the proud.

Jeremiah 41:10

Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the king’s daughters and all the people who were left at Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had committed to Gedaliah son of Ahikam. Ishmael son of Nethaniah took them captive and set out to cross over to the Ammonites.

Psalm 80:7

Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved.

Isaiah 36:5

Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? On whom, then, do you now rely, that you have rebelled against me?