Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

I was ashamed

1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have not used any of these rights, and I'm not writing this so that they may be applied in my case. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting.
2 Corinthians 7:14
For if I have been doing some boasting about you to him, I have never been ashamed of it. Moreover, since everything we told you was true, our boasting to Titus has also proved to be true.

His power and his wrath

Joshua 23:16
When you break the covenant of the LORD your God that he commanded you to obey by going to serve other gods and worship them, then the anger of the LORD will blaze against you, and you will perish quickly from this good land that he gave you."
2 Chronicles 15:2
so he went out to meet Asa and rebuked him:
Psalm 21:8
Your hand will find all your enemies, your right hand will find those who hate you.
Psalm 34:16
The face of the LORD is set against those who do evil, and he will remove people's recollection of them from the earth.
Psalm 90:11
Who can know the intensity of your anger? Because our fear of you matches your wrath,
Zephaniah 1:2
"I'll utterly sweep away everything from the land," declares the LORD.
Hebrews 10:38
but my righteous one will live by faith, and if he turns back, my soul will take no pleasure in him."
1 Peter 3:12
For the Lord watches the righteous, and he pays attention to their prayers. But the Lord opposes those who do wrong."

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