~ because they were not ~ 24_JER_31_15  Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, [and] bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they [were] not. #, 58_HEB_07_23  And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death, #,