Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThere were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
Esther
History / MordecaiFor the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahFor as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
John
GospelsWhich executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
Psalms
PoetryThe Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
Esther
History / MordecaiIf I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
Job
WisdomFor it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
Mark
Gospels / MarkSay thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNeither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on the sword, and died.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBehold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written,
John
GospelsBehold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
Job
WisdomAnd when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then they forsook their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThis they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
John
GospelsAnd the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,