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.

His power and his wrath

Bible References

I was ashamed

1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have used no right of this kind; nor have I written thus that anything of this kind should be done for me; for it were better for me to die, than that any one should take from me what I glory in.
2 Corinthians 7:14
for if in anything I have boasted to him of you, I am not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting, which we made before Titus, was found to be truth;

His power and his wrath

Hebrews 10:38
Now my righteous man shall live by faith; but if he draw back, my soul hath no pleasure in him."
1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are toward their supplication; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."