Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
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And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
Genesis
Law / MosesThere was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.
Joshua
HistoryAfterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsO Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
Luke
GospelsOut of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
Numbers
LawAnd had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
Revelation
ApocalypticAre there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelProve thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
Psalms
PoetryMoreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBy pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut God raised him from the dead:
Acts
HistoryAnd Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhen thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Genesis
LawBut it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
Nehemiah
HistoryYea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
Leviticus
LawSo David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHe that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
Proverbs
WisdomThen Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
Joshua
HistoryAnd the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.