1 Esdras 8:51
King James VersionSource notes
“For I was ashamed to ask the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for safeguard against our adversaries.”
Context
48And Asebia, and Annus, and Osaias his brother, of the sons of Channuneus, and their sons, were twenty men.
49And of the servants of the temple whom David had ordained, and the principal men for the service of the Levites to wit, the servants of the temple two hundred and twenty, the catalogue of whose names were shewed.
50And there I vowed a fast unto the young men before our Lord, to desire of him a prosperous journey both for us and them that were with us, for our children, and for the cattle:
51For I was ashamed to ask the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for safeguard against our adversaries.
52For we had said unto the king, that the power of the Lord our God should be with them that seek him, to support them in all ways.
53And again we besought our Lord as touching these things, and found him favourable unto us.
54Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Esebrias, and Assanias, and ten men of their brethren with them: