Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
Acts
HistoryAnd Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
Ezra
History / EzraIn the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
John
GospelsYea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBehold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhen the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsRemember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAll nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahArt thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAnd Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
Genesis
LawFor my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
1 Kings
HistoryThese words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
John
GospelsJesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way:
John
Gospels / JohnFor whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Luke
GospelsAnd Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;
Matthew
GospelsAnd the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.