Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
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For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNow when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah;
1 Chronicles
HistoryIs not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielLet Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
Exodus
Law / MosesWho knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThis is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
Genesis
Law / MosesI decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielYet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.
Genesis
LawFor all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
Numbers
LawHis servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
Deuteronomy
LawStrengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-lehi.