Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
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And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
James
General Epistles / JamesThe fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
Psalms
PoetryYe ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
James
General Epistles / JamesThese things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
Numbers
Law / MosesIt repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.
Mark
GospelsMany are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Psalms
PoetryO thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAfter they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.
Acts
HistoryTherefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Mark
Gospels / MarkShe that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
Psalms
PoetryAnd that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.
Ezra
HistorySixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNow therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.