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.
I was ashamed
His power and his wrath
Bible References
I was ashamed
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than -- no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!
2 Corinthians 7:14
For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has proved true as well.
His power and his wrath
Joshua 23:16
If you violate the covenantal laws of the Lord your God which he commanded you to keep, and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods, the Lord will be very angry with you and you will disappear quickly from the good land which he gave to you."
2 Chronicles 15:2
He met Asa and told him, "Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are loyal to him. If you seek him, he will respond to you, but if you reject him, he will reject you.
Psalm 21:8
You prevail over all your enemies; your power is too great for those who hate you.
Psalm 34:16
But the Lord opposes evildoers and wipes out all memory of them from the earth.
Psalm 90:11
Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you.
Zephaniah 1:2
"I will destroy everything from the face of the earth," says the Lord.
Hebrews 10:38
But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him.
1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer. But the Lord's face is against those who do evil.