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.

Bible References

Despised

Proverbs 1:24
Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one responded;
Luke 16:14
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him.
Acts 13:41
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish, for I do a work in your days, a work which ye would in no wise believe, if one should declare it unto you.
1 Thessalonians 4:8
He therefore that despises us, does not despise man, but God, who has also given unto us his Holy Spirit.

Misused

Jeremiah 32:3
For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus hath the LORD said, Behold, I give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it?
Jeremiah 38:6
Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
Matthew 5:12
Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in the heavens; for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Matthew 21:33
Hear another parable: There was a certain husband of a house who planted a vineyard and hedged it round about and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country,
Acts 7:52
Who of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? and they have slain those who announced before the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have now been the betrayers and murderers,

The wrath

Psalm 74:1
O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? Why does thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Psalm 79:1
O God, the Gentiles are come into thine inheritance; they have defiled the temple of thy holiness; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

Till

Proverbs 6:15
Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; suddenly he shall be broken without remedy.
Proverbs 29:1
He that being often reproved hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy.

General references

2 Chronicles 33:10
And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they would not hearken.
Proverbs 9:7
He that chastens a scorner brings shame unto himself, and he that chastens a wicked man brings himself a blot.
Isaiah 5:4
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Therefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes?
Jeremiah 30:12
For thus hath the LORD said, Thy breach is incurable, and thy sore is grievous.
Ezekiel 22:24
Son of man, say unto her, Thou art not clean land, nor art thou sprinkled with rain in the day of indignation.
Matthew 21:35
And the husbandmen took his slaves and beat one and killed another and stoned another.
Luke 3:20
added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.