Verse 10

The messengers journeyed from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but people mocked and ridiculed them.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his warnings, and ridiculed his prophets. Finally the LORD got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment.
  • 2 Chr 30:6 : 6 Messengers delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. This royal edict read:“O Israelites, return to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria.
  • Gen 19:14 : 14 Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. He said,“Quick, get out of this place because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them.
  • Neh 2:19 : 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard all this, they derided us and expressed contempt toward us. They said,“What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
  • Esth 3:13 : 13 Letters were sent by the runners to all the king’s provinces stating that they should destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews, from youth to elderly, both women and children, on a particular day, namely the thirteenth day of the twelfth month(that is, the month of Adar), and to loot and plunder their possessions.
  • Esth 3:15 : 15 The messengers scurried forth with the king’s order. The edict was issued in Susa the citadel. While the king and Haman sat down to drink, the city of Susa was in an uproar!
  • Esth 8:10 : 10 Mordecai wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king’s signet ring. He then sent letters by couriers on horses, who rode royal horses that were very swift.
  • Esth 8:14 : 14 The couriers who were riding the royal horses went forth with the king’s edict without delay. And the law was presented in Susa the citadel as well.
  • Job 9:25 : 25 Renewed Complaint“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.
  • Job 12:4 : 4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered– a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!
  • Luke 8:53 : 53 And they began making fun of him, because they knew that she was dead.
  • Luke 16:14 : 14 More Warnings about the Pharisees The Pharisees(who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed him.
  • Luke 22:63-64 : 63 Now the men who were holding Jesus under guard began to mock him and beat him. 64 They blindfolded him and asked him repeatedly,“Prophesy! Who hit you?”
  • Luke 23:35 : 35 The people also stood there watching, but the leaders ridiculed him, saying,“He saved others. Let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 Now when they heard about the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, but others said,“We will hear you again about this.”
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.