Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomTheir young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
Exodus
Law / MosesTherefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Psalms
PoetryThat no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
Leviticus
LawAnd Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
1 Kings
HistoryViolence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
Numbers
LawAnd the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWhen Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
John
GospelsFor I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahO Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThe same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewMoreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThough his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
Job
WisdomAnd the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.