Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
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For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Psalms
PoetryOn the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Leviticus
LawAnd a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThat at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulHath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
Mark
GospelsLet their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahNow Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.
Leviticus
LawArise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Psalms
PoetryOr with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:
Numbers
Law / MosesTo bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBut refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAdonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
Genesis
LawShall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWhile Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
Acts
History / LukeEnter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.