Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
Exodus
LawAnd Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraI have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnIf a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof:
1 Chronicles
HistoryTheir inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
Psalms
PoetryThen went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThere be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsA prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNamely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
Leviticus
LawAnd the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.
Judges
HistoryNow these are the names of his children which he had in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraLest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSee therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelShall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Job
Wisdom / JobThus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThese are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
LawBut he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.