TSK · 2 Chronicles 36:16

if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant–

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was traveling up the road, some young boys came out of the city and made fun of him, saying,“Go on up, baldy! Go on up, baldy!”

The LORD sent prophets among them to lead them back to him. They warned the people, but they would not pay attention.

But after our ancestors angered the God of heaven, he delivered them into the hands of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and exiled the people to Babylon.

A well-written song by Asaph. Why, O God, have you permanently rejected us? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?

However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one was paying attention,

Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.

So now, do not mock, or your chains will become heavier! For I have heard a message about decreed destruction, from the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, against the entire land.

“These people have denied what the LORD says. They have said,‘That is not so! No harm will come to us. We will not experience war and famine.

For King Zedekiah had confined Jeremiah there after he had reproved him for prophesying as he did. He had asked Jeremiah,“Why do you keep prophesying these things? Why do you keep saying that the LORD says,‘I will hand this city over to the king of Babylon? I will let him capture it.

We have not paid attention to your servants the prophets, who spoke by your authority to our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors, and to all the inhabitants of the land as well.

The Parable of the Tenants“Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

For he will be handed over to the Gentiles; he will be mocked, mistreated, and spat on.

Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, dressing him in elegant clothes, Herod sent him back to Pilate.

But others jeered at the speakers, saying,“They are drunk on new wine!”

‘Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work you would never believe, even if someone tells you.’”

Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.