Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.
Mark
GospelsI will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
Proverbs
WisdomSo David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
Genesis
Law / MosesThou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
Job
Wisdom / JobAs for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMoreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelHusbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
Leviticus
LawBut whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
1 John
General EpistlesAnd it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
Exodus
LawGod that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
Acts
HistoryWherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
Philemon
Pauline EpistlesAnd David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
1 Chronicles
HistoryO God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.
Luke
GospelsAfter that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.
Acts
History / LukeAnd out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammoth-dor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.
Joshua
History / JoshuaIn the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.