Ezra 8:22

Overview - Ezra 8
The companions of Ezra, who returned from Babylon.
15 He sends to Iddo for ministers for the temple.
21 He keeps a fast.
24 He commits the treasures to the custody of the priests.
31 From Ahava they come to Jerusalem.
33 The treasure is weighed in the temple.
36 The commission is delivered.
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Ezra 8:22  (King James Version)
For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
 


I was ashamed
1 Corinthians 9:15 ; 2 Corinthians 7:14

The hand
Ezra 7:6 Ezra 7:9 Ezra 7:28 1 Chronicles 28:9 ; 2 Chronicles 16:9 ; Psalms 33:18 Psalms 33:19 ; Psalms 34:15 Psalms 34:22 Isaiah 3:10 Isaiah 3:11
Lamentations 3:25 ; Romans 8:28 ; 1 Peter 3:12

his power and his wrath
Joshua 23:16 ; 2 Chronicles 15:2 ; Psalms 21:8 Psalms 21:9 ; 34:16 90:11 Zephaniah 1:2-6 ; Hebrews 10:38
1 Peter 3:12