Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?

Bible References

They

Job 30:1
“But now those younger than I mock and laugh at me,
Whose fathers I refused to put with the sheepdogs of my flock.
Psalm 44:13

You have made us the reproach and taunt of our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those around us.
Psalm 79:4

We have become an object of taunting to our neighbors [because of our humiliation],
A derision and mockery to those who encircle us.
Psalm 80:6

You make us an object of contention to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh [at our suffering] among themselves.
Jeremiah 20:8

For whenever I speak, I must shout out;
I shout violence and destruction,
Because the word of the Lord has become to me
A reprimand and a mockery and has brought me insult all day long.
Mark 5:40
They began laughing [scornfully] at Him [because they knew the child was dead]. But He made them all go outside, and took along the child’s father and mother and His own [three] companions, and entered the room where the child was.
Hebrews 11:36
and others experienced the trial of mocking and scourging [amid torture], and even chains and imprisonment.

Will ye rebel

Nehemiah 6:6
In it was written, “It is reported among the [neighboring] nations, and Gashmu is saying that you and the Jews are planning to revolt, and that is the reason you are rebuilding the wall. And according to these reports, you are to be their king.
Ezra 4:15
in order that a search may be made in the record books of your fathers. And you will discover in the record books and learn that this is a rebellious city, damaging to kings and provinces, and that in the past they have incited rebellion within it. That is why that city was laid waste (destroyed).
Luke 23:2
They began to accuse Jesus, asserting, “We found this Man misleading and perverting our nation and forbidding us to pay taxes to Caesar, and claiming that He Himself is Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), a King.”
John 19:12
As a result of this, Pilate kept making efforts to release Him, but the Jews kept screaming, “If you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar! Anyone who makes himself out [to be] a king opposes Caesar [and rebels against the emperor]!”
Acts 24:5
For we have found this man to be a public menace and one who instigates dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the [heretical] sect of the Nazarenes.