Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
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Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.
Acts
History / LukeMy face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Job
WisdomThere were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
Psalms
PoetryHe that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnOn the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered:
Numbers
LawAnd he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
Genesis
LawHe hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Micah
Minor ProphetsWilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
2 Samuel
HistoryBlessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
John
Gospels / JohnThey that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Psalms
PoetryFor your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Genesis
Law / MosesTake heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTherefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaFor as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.