Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
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Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
Leviticus
Law / MosesDearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulWho are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIn the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
Mark
GospelsAnd when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThey will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaSo Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:
Numbers
LawAnd I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.
Genesis
LawAnd he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
Genesis
LawAnd now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhich in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahJudah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.