DERISION

Passages on this topic · 14

• Genesis 18:12

  Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

• 2 Kings 2:23

  He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

• 2 Chronicles 30:1

  Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 30:2

  For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.

• 2 Chronicles 30:3

  For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, and the people had not gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 30:4

  The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.

• 2 Chronicles 30:5

  So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it in great numbers in the way it is written.

• 2 Chronicles 30:6

  So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

• 2 Chronicles 30:7

  Don’t be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.

• 2 Chronicles 30:8

  Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

• 2 Chronicles 30:9

  For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

• 2 Chronicles 30:10

  So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.

• Psalms 2:4

  He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

• Proverbs 1:26

  I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;