Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,
Esther
HistoryAnd it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he brought the meat offering, and took an handful thereof, and burnt it upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Mark
GospelsThe woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
Mark
Gospels / MarkI saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelI will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelI will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaSo David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.
Acts
History / LukeIn the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWho, when they came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.
Acts
History / LukeO daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBy swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Mark
Gospels / MarkIn those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name: