2 Chronicles 36:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Despised

Misused

Acts 7:52

The wrath

Psalm 74:1

Psalm 79:1

Till

Proverbs 6:15

Proverbs 29:1

General references

Luke 3:20

Bible References

Despised

Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;

And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.

See, you doubters, have wonder and come to your end; for I will do a thing in your days to which you will not give belief, even if it is made clear to you.

Whoever, then, goes against this word, goes against not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

Misused

For Zedekiah, king of Judah, had had him shut up, saying, Why have you, as a prophet, been saying, The Lord has said, See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;

So they took Jeremiah and put him into the water-hole of Malchiah, the king's son, in the place of the armed watchmen: and they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the hole there was no water, but wet earth: and Jeremiah went down into the wet earth.

Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.

Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;

The wrath

Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?

O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.

Till

For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.

A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.

General references

And the word of the Lord came to Manasseh and his people, but they gave no attention.

He who gives teaching to a man of pride gets shame for himself; he who says sharp words to a sinner gets a bad name.

Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?

For the Lord has said, Your disease may not be made well and your wound is bitter.

Son of man, say to her, You are a land on which no rain or thunderstorm has come in the day of wrath.

And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another.

Did this most evil thing of all, and had John shut up in prison.