Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSo Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
Esther
History / MordecaiOne is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
Job
WisdomAnd when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
Psalms
PoetryThen drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
Luke
GospelsThou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThere was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
John
Gospels / JohnThen took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
Exodus
Law / MosesBut I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.
Judges
History / SamuelBut as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
Matthew
GospelsAnd Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
1 Kings
HistoryThy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.
Ezra
History / EzraAhaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThese are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
2 Peter
General EpistlesBecause they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.