2 Chronicles 30:10

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Summary

So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

The posts

They laughed

General references

Isaiah 17:7

Bible References

The posts

So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, "O people of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.

Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king's signet ring. Then he sent the letters by mounted couriers riding on swift horses that were used in the king's service, bred from the royal stud,

"My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.

They laughed

But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, "Up! Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they jeered at us and despised us and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"

I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead.

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

Now the men who were holding Jesus in custody were mocking him as they beat him.

And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!"

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, "We will hear you again about this."

Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

General references

In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.