2 Chronicles 36:16 BSB

2 Chronicles 36:16

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.

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words,.... Which was the treatment Jeremiah and Ezekiel frequently met with: and misused his prophets; imprisoned them, as Micaiah and Jeremiah were: until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people; which burned like fire in his breast, and broke out to the consumption of them: till there was no remedy; or healing of them; there was no reclaiming or recovering of them, no bringing them to repentance, and no pardon for them.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The ill usage they gave Jeremiah who lived at this time, and which we read much of in the book of his prophecy, is an instance of this. This was an evidence of an implacable enmity to God, and an invincible resolution to go on in their sins. This brought wrath upon them without remedy, for it was sinning against the remedy.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He gave them early timely notice both of their duty and danger. Let this quicken us to seek God early, that he rises betimes to send to us. The prophets that were sent rose betimes to speak to them, were diligent and faithful in their office, lost no time, slipped no opportunity of dealing with them; and therefore God is said to rise betimes.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּֽהְי֤וּ	vai.yih.Yu	and they were	H1961 →
מַלְעִבִים֙	mal.'i.Vim	deriding	H3931 →
בְּמַלְאֲכֵ֣י	be.mal.'a.Khei	<in> [the] messengers of	H4397 →
הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים	ha.'E.lo.Him	<the> God	H430 →
וּבוֹזִ֣ים	u.vo.Zim	and despising	H959 →
דְּבָרָ֔יו	de.va.Rav	words his	H1697 →
וּמִֽתַּעְתְּעִ֖ים	u.mi.ta'.te.'Im	and mocking	H8591 →
בִּנְבִאָ֑יו	bin.vi.'Av	at prophets his	H5030 →
עַ֠ד	'ad	until	H5704 →
עֲל֧וֹת	a.Lot	came up	H5927 →
חֲמַת־	cha.mat-	[the] anger of	H2534 →
יְהוָ֛ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
בְּעַמּ֖וֹ	be.'a.Mo	on people his	H5971 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
לְאֵ֥ין	le.'Ein	<to> there not	H369 →
מַרְפֵּֽא׃	mar.Pe'	[was] healing	H4832 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 74:1
Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
leads to
- Deuteronomy 29:20
  The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot…
- Psalms 100:3
  Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
- Psalms 79:13
  Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.
- John 10:26–30
  But because you are not My sheep, you refuse to believe.
- Psalms 44:9
  But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
Through
Jeremiah 32:3
For 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…
leads to
- Jeremiah 34:2–3
  The LORD, the God of Israel, told Jeremiah to go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him that this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I am about to deliver this…
- Jeremiah 21:4–7
  this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans…
- Jeremiah 26:8–9
  and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!

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01Commentary

The record, by era

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About 2 Chronicles

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About 2 Chronicles