Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
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Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis
LawIt is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Genesis
Law / MosesI thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
Job
WisdomWho can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
Job
WisdomGod shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryThis is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
Judges
HistoryBrethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marvelled all.
Luke
GospelsYe shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.
John
Gospels / JohnBut these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
Deuteronomy
LawBut though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsFor so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
2 Kings
History / JeremiahProvideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
Exodus
Law / MosesI will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThe lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Job
Wisdom / JobTheir inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsMercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.