Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
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For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
Judges
HistoryFor John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
Luke
GospelsAnd when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel.
Numbers
LawWhen therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
John
GospelsFor they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistorySaying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:
Luke
GospelsReuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:
Numbers
LawAnd he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,
1 Kings
HistoryAnd there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhen Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilaean.
Luke
GospelsFurthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThere is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
Psalms
PoetrySo the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonBut if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
Psalms
Poetry(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThen made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBut they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
Matthew
GospelsFor we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.