Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelCast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
Proverbs
WisdomAnd there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSave Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
Acts
History / LukeAnd when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
Exodus
LawAnd on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
Numbers
LawAnd I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahWherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.
Job
WisdomWherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
Luke
Gospels / LukeSon of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;
Joshua
History / JoshuaTell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?