Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHo, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThere is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersCan the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
James
General Epistles / JamesBut Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other disciple, which was known unto the high priest, and spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.
John
Gospels / JohnOf Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
Genesis
LawFor John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Matthew
GospelsAnd thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
Exodus
Law / MosesTheir children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.
Nehemiah
HistoryFor oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalms
PoetryThe Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:
Matthew
GospelsThou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.
Exodus
Law / MosesHath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
John
Gospels / JohnOur inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsBut if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
Job
WisdomTherefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.