Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:
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As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was.
1 Samuel
HistoryNow I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielFor their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.
Numbers
LawBehold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesThe LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThey shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.
1 Samuel
HistoryNow also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the king also and the people.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
Numbers
Law / MosesHe that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThen did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
Psalms
PoetrySo he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover.
2 Kings
HistoryBut it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
2 Peter
General EpistlesIs it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?