Ezra 8:22

American Standard Version 2015

For I was ashamed to ask 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 that seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.

Cross References

1 Peter 3:12

{\b For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous,\par\tab And his ears unto their supplication:\par\tab But the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil.}\par

2 Chronicles 16:9

For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly; for from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

Lamentations 3:25

Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

2 Chronicles 15:2

and he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you, while ye are with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

Psalm 34:22

Jehovah redeemeth the soul of his servants;\par\tab And none of them that take refuge in him shall be condemned.\par

Romans 8:28

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, {\i even} to them that are called according to {\i his} purpose.

1 Chronicles 28:9

And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Jehovah searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: If thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

Hebrews 10:38

{\b But my righteous one shall live by faith:\par\tab And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.}

Ezra 7:6

this Ezra went up from Babylon. And he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Jehovah, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Jehovah his God upon him.

Ezra 7:28

and hath extended lovingkindness unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened according to the hand of Jehovah my God upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.\par

Joshua 23:16

When ye transgress the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them; then will the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

Ezra 7:9

For upon the first {\i day} of the first month began he to go up from Babylon; and on the first {\i day} of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

2 Corinthians 7:14

For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for {\i it were} good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

Psalm 90:11

Who knoweth the power of thine anger,\par\tab And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?

Joshua 22:16

Thus saith the whole congregation of Jehovah, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following Jehovah, in that ye have builded you an altar, to rebel this day against Jehovah?

Ezra 8:31

Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth {\i day} of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the lier-in-wait by the way.

Nehemiah 2:9

Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.

Psalm 20:8

They are bowed down and fallen;\par\tab But we are risen, and stand upright.