Ezra 8:22

Ezra was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers, having testified that God protects those who seek Him. His faith matched the witness he had given.

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• 1 Pet 3:12For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
• Ps 33:18–19Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
• 2 Chr 16:9For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
• Ps 34:15–16The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
• Lam 3:25The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
• 2 Chr 15:2And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
• Ps 34:22The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
• Rom 8:28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
• 1 Chr 28:9And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD 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.
• Heb 10:38Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
• Ezra 7:6This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
• Ezra 7:28And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
• Isa 3:10–11Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
• Josh 23:16When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.
• Ps 21:8–9Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
• Zeph 1:2–6I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
• Ezra 7:9For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
• 2 Cor 7:14For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
• Ps 90:11Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
• 1 Cor 9:15But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

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