Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
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And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:
Leviticus
Law / MosesTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
Genesis
LawWoe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Luke
GospelsThus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
Amos
Minor ProphetsTherefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewGreat is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
Psalms
PoetryAll these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Exodus
Law / MosesO that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesOf the sons of Pahath-moab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
Mark
GospelsThus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThat ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.
Joshua
HistoryFor because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThat thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.