2 Chronicles 36:16
in 2 Chronicles 36But 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.
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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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This verse in 2 Chronicles 36
Commentary
5 notes on this verseBut 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.
This site's exposition
But they mocked the messengers of God
The wrath was stirred “beyond remedy,” a phrase found in the Hebrew Bible only here and at Proverbs 6:15 and 29:1. Chronicles applies to a nation what Proverbs applies to one obstinate man. John Gill takes the lost remedy as repentance itself, with no bringing them back.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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.
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.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Misused his prophets - Rather, “scoffed at his prophets.” The allusion is to verbal mockery, not to persecution.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
And the Lord..sent upon them All this is an acknowledgment of divine justice, so that you should not say that He did not forewarn them to repent of their evil ways, as it is written: “grasped forever His anger and kept His fury forever (Amos:12).
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
16 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּֽהְי֤וּ | vaiyihyu | and they were | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| מַלְעִבִים֙ | malivim | deriding | H3931 → | |
| בְּמַלְאֲכֵ֣י | bemalakhei | <in> [the] messengers of | H4397 → | 213 times |
| הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים | haelohim | <the> God | H430 → | 2601 times |
| וּבוֹזִ֣ים | uvozim | and despising | H959 → | |
| דְּבָרָ֔יו | devarav | words his | H1697 → | 1440 times |
| וּמִֽתַּעְתְּעִ֖ים | umita'teim | and mocking | H8591 → | |
| בִּנְבִאָ֑יו | binviav | at prophets his | H5030 → | 314 times |
| עַ֠ד | ʾad | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| עֲל֧וֹת | alot | came up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| חֲמַת־ | chamat- | [the] anger of | H2534 → | 125 times |
| יְהוָ֛ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| בְּעַמּ֖וֹ | beamo | on people his | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| עַד־ | ʾad- | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| לְאֵ֥ין | leein | <to> there not | H369 → | 789 times |
| מַרְפֵּֽא׃ | marpe' | [was] healing | H4832 → |
וַיִּֽהְי֤וּand they were
vaiyihyuH1961 →3559 times
מַלְעִבִים֙deriding
malivimH3931 →
בְּמַלְאֲכֵ֣י<in> [the] messengers of
bemalakheiH4397 →213 times
הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים<the> God
haelohimH430 →2601 times
וּבוֹזִ֣יםand despising
uvozimH959 →
דְּבָרָ֔יוwords his
devaravH1697 →1440 times
וּמִֽתַּעְתְּעִ֖יםand mocking
umita'teimH8591 →
בִּנְבִאָ֑יוat prophets his
binviavH5030 →314 times
עַ֠דuntil
ʾadH5704 →1261 times
עֲל֧וֹתcame up
alotH5927 →890 times
חֲמַת־[the] anger of
chamat-H2534 →125 times
יְהוָ֛הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
בְּעַמּ֖וֹon people his
beamoH5971 →1873 times
עַד־until
ʾad-H5704 →1261 times
לְאֵ֥ין<to> there not
leeinH369 →789 times
מַרְפֵּֽא׃[was] healing
marpe'H4832 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 74:1Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
it 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.
- Deuteronomy 29:20
Through
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…
it 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!
- Jeremiah 34:2–3
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About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.