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.

Cross-references · 20

• 1 Pet 3:12For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
• Ps 33:18–19Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness;
• 2 Chr 16:9For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”
• Ps 34:15–16Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
• Lam 3:25Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
• 2 Chr 15:2and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
• Ps 34:22Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.
• Rom 8:28We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
• 1 Chr 28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
• Heb 10:38But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
• Ezra 7:6this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.
• Ezra 7:28and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to Yahweh my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.
• Isa 3:10–11Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
• Josh 23:16when you disobey the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then Yahweh’s anger will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.”
• Ps 21:8–9Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
• Zeph 1:2–6I will utterly sweep away everything off of the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.
• Ezra 7:9For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.
• 2 Cor 7:14For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
• Ps 90:11Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
• 1 Cor 9:15But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

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