Verse 10

So the runners went from town to town through all the country of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun: but they were laughed at and made sport of.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.
  • 2 Chr 30:6 : 6 So runners went with letters from the king and his chiefs through all Israel and Judah, by the order of the king, saying, O children of Israel, come back again to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may come again to that small band of you which has been kept safe out of the hands of the kings of Assyria.
  • Gen 19:14 : 14 And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously.
  • Neh 2:19 : 19 But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?
  • Esth 3:13 : 13 And letters were sent by the runners into every division of the kingdom ordering the death and destruction of all Jews, young and old, little children and women, on the same day, even the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar, and the taking of all their goods by force.
  • Esth 3:15 : 15 The runners went out quickly by the king's order, and a public statement was made in Shushan: and the king and Haman took wine together: but the town of Shushan was troubled.
  • Esth 8:10 : 10 The letters were sent in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with his ring, and they were taken by men on horseback, going on the quick-running horses used for the king's business, the offspring of his best horses:
  • Esth 8:14 : 14 So the men went out on the quick-running horses used on the king's business, wasting no time and forced on by the king's order; and the order was given out in Shushan, the king's town.
  • Job 9:25 : 25 My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.
  • Job 12:4 : 4 It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!
  • Luke 8:53 : 53 And they were laughing at him, being certain that she was dead.
  • Luke 16:14 : 14 And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.
  • Luke 22:63-64 : 63 And the men in whose hands Jesus was, made sport of him and gave him blows. 64 And, covering his eyes, they said to him, Are you prophet enough to say who gave you that blow?
  • Luke 23:35 : 35 And the people were looking on. And the rulers made sport of him, saying, He was a saviour of others; let him do something for himself, if he is the Christ, the man of God's selection.
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons: