2 Chronicles 36

Today, if ye will hear my voice, harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness; when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work: Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said it is a people that do err in…

He that despises you, despises me, says our Savior (Luke 10:16). And God will not leave this sin unpunished, indeed he speaks of it as almost an unpardonable crime (2 Chronicles 36:16): They mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until th…

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears that they should not hear: indeed they made their heart like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of Hosts had sent in his spirit by the former prophets: th…

5. The ministers of Christ, the preachers of this religion, are with a distinguishing enmity everywhere spoken against. Under the Old Testament God's messengers and his prophets were generally mocked and misused, and it was Jerusalem's measure-filling sin (2 Chronicles 36:16). I…

And is it not worse to see multitudes of sick souls lying and bleeding, with their spiritual physicians removed from them? This is a wrath-provoking sin (2 Chronicles 36:16): they abused his prophets until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, until there was no remedy…