Thematic Bible: Message despised
Thematic Bible
Message despised » Of the word of God
They made their hearts like a rock so as not to obey the law or the words that the Lord of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the Lord of Hosts.
Verse Concepts
and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,
so their roots will become like something rotten
and their blossoms will blow away like dust,
for they have rejected
the instruction of the Lord of Hosts,
and they have despised
the word of the Holy One of Israel.
that they will listen?
Look, their ear is uncircumcised,
so they cannot pay attention.
See, the word of the Lord has become contemptible to them—
they find no pleasure in it.
and turn your back on My words.
As soon as Jehudi would read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut the scroll with a scribe’s knife and throw the columns into the blazing fire until the entire scroll was consumed by the fire in the brazier.
Verse Concepts
“Because you have rejected this message
and have trusted in oppression and deceit,
and have depended on them,
they will be dismayed and snared.
They have rejected the word of the Lord,
so what wisdom do they really have?
I proclaim, “Violence and destruction!”
because the word of the Lord has become for me
constant disgrace and derision.
Related Topics
- Adding to the Bible
- Advice, Rejecting God's Advice
- Broken Things
- Burning Plants
- Communication
- Convincing
- Criticism, against believers
- Deafness
- Decay
- Disappointment
- False Wisdom
- Flint
- Folly, Effects Of
- Forsaking God's Things
- God Spoke By The Prophets
- God's Word Gives Wisdom
- Grass
- Hardness
- Hardness Of Heart
- Hatred
- Hearing
- Indifference
- Insensibility
- Knifes
- Knives
- Minerals
- Nature Of The Heart
- Obstinate Individuals
- Offence
- Old Testament Claims Inspiration
- Pens
- People As Rocks
- People Rotting
- Pleasure
- Prophecy, Inspiration Of Ot
- Reading The Scriptures
- Refusing To Hear
- Rejecting God's Word
- Rejection Of God
- Rejection Of God's Word
- Rejection Of God, Results Of
- Rejection Of Spiritual Instruction